DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—House Democrats are attacking the Republican Party’s move to stop the military from paying for child sex-change treatments in the National Defense Authorization Act.
House Republicans negotiating the most recent iteration of the National Defense Authorization Act managed to include language that expressly prohibits the military from paying for “medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization” for children under the age of 18. Democratic Washington Rep. Adam Smith, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, slammed the provision as one intended to appease “the most extreme elements” of the Republican Party.
“House Armed Services Democrats were successful in blocking many harmful provisions that attacked DEI programs, the LGBTQ community, and women’s…
