I'm writing as your constituent because I need you to know what families in our district have been living through. The Trump administration recently withdrew a rule that would have forced hospitals to stop providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth or lose their Medicare and Medicaid funding entirely. That's not a small thing — hospitals depend on that funding to keep their doors open for everyone. Doctors, nurses, and hospital administrators spent months in limbo, and families with transgender kids spent months terrified that their child's care would simply disappear. More than 30,000 people submitted comments opposing this rule, alongside nearly every major medical association in the country. That kind of opposition doesn't happen unless something is genuinely harmful.
The rule is gone for now, but nothing stops it from coming back. Congress has the power to make sure it doesn't. I'm asking you to support legislation that permanently protects Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals providing medically necessary care, including gender-affirming care, and to oppose any future attempts to use federal funding as a weapon against patients and providers. Families in our district — and the hospitals that serve all of us — deserve to know that the floor won't drop out from under them again.
Please stand up for the patients, families, and healthcare workers in our community who have already been through enough.
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