All anti-transgender provisions stripped from House and Senate funding bills

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All anti-transgender provisions stripped from House and Senate funding bills

https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/anti-transgender-provisions-stripped 🔗

Trudy Ring (21 Jan 2026)

The U.S. House and Senate have negotiated final appropriations bills to fund the federal government through September 30, and they've been stripped of anti-transgender provisions.

These provisions, known as "riders" because they're unrelated to the primary purpose of the bill in question, were attached to almost every appropriations bill in the House of Representatives, though not in the Senate, Erin Reed reports at her Erin in the Morning Substack column.

The "most extreme" ones were in the bills to fund the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services, Reed notes. These included "language barring 'any federal funds' from supporting gender-affirming care at any age and threatening funding for schools that support transgender students," she writes. "Taken together, those measures would have posed a sweeping threat to transgender people's access to education and health care nationwide."

Anti-trans riders were stripped from each bill as it was considered by House and Senate negotiators working out differences, and Tuesday morning the two chambers released the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes the appropriations for Education, HHS, Labor, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Defense, and Transportation. There are no anti-trans provisions in the act, which is still subject to a vote by the two chambers.