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VOTE NO to Dangerous and Discriminatory Anti-LGBTQI+ Legislation H.R. 3492 and H.R. 498. This Wednesday, the House is scheduled to vote on H.R. 3492, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill that would criminalize doctors for providing consensual, evidence-based transition-related care, and H.R. 498, Dan Crenshaw’s effort to block federal Medicaid funds from covering transition-related care for adolescents, creating a de facto ban for families who already face significant economic barriers. Transition-related health care has been provided for decades in line with established medical standards and has been shown to improve mental health outcomes and save lives. Criminalizing this care puts patients and providers at risk while doing nothing to protect anyone - and all in the name of what’s good for the children. Let’s reach out to our House members and urge them to vote no on these bills. Advocates for Trans Equality has set up an email tool with language we can use for our calls. Dear Representative Krishnamoorthi, Congress must defend the rights of their constituents to access medically necessary care and to defend the rights of doctors, rather than Marjorie Taylor Greene and Dan Crenshaw, to determine what treatments patients have access to. I urge you to protect the health and well-being of transgender and gender-diverse youth by VOTING NO on these extreme bills: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s H.R. 3492 and Dan Crenshaw’s H.R. 498. Both H.R. 3492 and H.R. 498 are extreme, overreaching, and overtly discriminatory bill that aims to block transgender and gender-diverse people from accessing safe, effective, and medically necessary healthcare based on purely ideological objections to gender diversity. But the healthcare these bills seek to criminalize (in the case of H.R. 3492) and restrict access to is nothing like how the bill characterizes it. These bills have no intention of protecting children or addressing the real issue of skyrocketing health care costs in the U.S., as is evidenced by its explicit exemptions for procedures performed on intersex infants and the provision of the same care for cisgender youth. I urge you to protect the right of all Americans to access the healthcare they need. I urge you to VOTE NO on Dan Crenshaw and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s dangerous and discriminatory bills. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, David Piekarczyk