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Trans treatments - hormones, puberty blockers - for MINORS · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  President, this amendment poses a simple and direct question.
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  Should we use federal tax dollars to pay for transgender
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  surgeries and treatments for minor children?
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  More specifically, should we divert money from Medicaid, a
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  program that is dedicated to the most needy among us, and use it
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  instead to pay for risky, dangerous, irreversible
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  transgender drugs and surgeries for minor children?
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  Because, Madam President, that's what's been happening for years.
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  Outfits like Planned Parenthood have gotten billions of dollars
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  from Medicaid and Medicare, billions of dollars taken from
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  the elderly, from the poor, from the needy, paid out to them,
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  which they can then use for transgender surgeries,
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  treatments, drugs for minor children.
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  They proudly advertise it on their websites.
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  One recent study found that in three years alone, Planned
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  Parenthood got a billion and a half dollars from Medicaid and
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  Medicare, money to be used on these risky surgeries and
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  procedures for our children. This is wrong, Madam Chairman.
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  This is a terrible misuse of federal funds and we should put
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  a stop to it. Today I asked for a yes vote.