Transgender people notch rare win in fight over Trump’s ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill

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Transgender people notch rare win in fight over Trump's 'One Big, Beautiful Bill'

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Story by Eric Garcia (3 July 2025)

Transgender Americans received a surprising mini-victory amid the Republican passage of President Donald Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill" when an attempt to restrict gender-affirming care died in the legislative process.

The bill had included language that would have banned Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care for transgender minors. But in a final deal made to appeal to conservatives, the legislation struck the term "for minors."

But transgender people had a powerful ally in Sen. Ron Wyden, one of the remaining lawmakers who opposed the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the law that made the federal government recognize marriage as one man and one woman. Wyden said at the time that he would raise a point of order if needed.

In the end, the final agreement that led to the legislation being passed in the Senate excluded the language on gender-affirming care without the Democrats having to raise a point of order.