The ordinance would have added veterans as a protected class and extended existing LGBTQ protections from housing to public accommodations. Three Tulsa city councilors say Kevin Hern phoned them to raise concerns about federal funding. The sponsors pulled it, and Tulsa's law reads the same today.
S. 5202 would bar federal funds from any research or publication on gender transition in minors. Blackburn and Tuberville cosponsored it on July 30 — two weeks before Medicare's agency published the rule ending Medicaid coverage for the care itself. Both are running for governor.
PolitiFact rated the Friends of Byron Donalds PAC ad False. The clip was edited to make David Jolly appear to endorse surgery for children, when he was retelling a grandfather's story about a suicidal trans teenager. Donalds' spokesperson stood by it.
Campaigning before Florida's GOP primary, Donalds attacked his likely opponent over transgender kids and claimed America's largest doctors' group had come around to his position. The American Medical Association says it still believes families and doctors should decide together.
Harshbarger celebrated the new CMS rule cutting off Medicaid and CHIP for gender-affirming care for minors — then said she won't stop until Congress passes her STOP Act, which bans the care outright with $100,000 penalties per violation.
Five state Republican parties have added anti-IVF language to their platforms. In Congress, the SAFE KIDS Act would void surrogacy contracts with citizens of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea — and 25 Republicans with report cards here put their names on it.
A new CMS rule bars state Medicaid and CHIP plans from covering puberty blockers, hormones and surgery for minors. Kids already on hormone therapy get up to six months. Puberty blockers get nothing.
Malliotakis spent five years building a bipartisan bill for a women's history museum. In March, Mary Miller amended it to bar the museum from depicting 'any biological male as a female.' The bill died 204-216. Malliotakis blamed Democrats and quit the bipartisan caucus.
In 2022, 47 House Republicans voted for the Respect for Marriage Act and then 39 voted for the final version. Ellzey voted no both times. In December 2025 a Waco judge asked a federal court to overturn Obergefell outright.
