Democrats should kick the three transphobes who voted for MTG’s bill...

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Democrats should kick the three transphobes who voted for MTG's bill out of the caucus

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/democrats-should-kick-the-three-transphobes-who-voted-for-mtgs-bill-out-of-the-caucus/ 🔗

Alex Bollinger (18 Dec 2025)

Three Democrats crossed party lines yesterday to vote for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) bill to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth, and the party needs to kick them out. Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Vincente Gonzalez Jr (D-TX), and Don Davis (D-NC) all voted alongside 213 Republicans yesterday to pass Greene's anti-trans bill. If they had not voted for it, it would not have passed.

Yes, Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) is generally right that the party needs to be a "big tent" and allow some ideological diversity. But there are some lines that should not be crossed, and this is one of them.

The bill is extreme. It makes it a crime to provide safe and effective health care to trans youth (and only to trans youth! The same procedures for cis youth are exempted in Greene's bill), punishable with up to 10 years imprisonment. This includes the parents of trans kids, who are only trying to do what's best for their kids, who happen to be the target of a five-year moral panic that gripped the GOP so that they could get people to stop talking about the failures of the president's first term and his attempt to overthrow the federal government on January 6, 2021.

It's no coincidence that Greene introduced this bill and is also a major opponent of vaccines. She has no respect for scientists, which gives her license to believe whatever she wants, facts be damned. Who cares how many lives are lost, right? The Democratic Party should stay away from that arrogant and harmful mentality.

[Lori Dee ✅]

Lawmakers without medical experience should also consider the impact that such laws will have on providers. Medical professionals are licensed by the states and have membership in professional medical associations, which have their own rules and regulations governing medical practice. This sets up a difficult situation where providers want to help their patients but have a difficult time reconciling state laws, federal laws, and currently accepted guidelines.

The fact that they ignore professional medical practice and guidelines, pass laws that are focused on an agenda instead of protecting all citizens, speaks volumes to their incompetence in this area.

[Pema]

The fact that they ignore professional medical practice and guidelines, pass laws that are focused on an agenda instead of protecting all citizens, speaks volumes to their incompetence in this area.

I agree with you completely, and the same statement can be applied to almost anything that the government regulates. Most legislators are lawyers by training, so they're technically incompetent in most fields.

[Lori Dee ✅]

I agree with you completely, and the same statement can be applied to almost anything that the government regulates. Most legislators are lawyers by training, so they're technically incompetent in most fields.

Exactly.