Sarah McBride Lobbied Some Republicans to Vote Against an Anti-Trans Bill

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Source: NOTUS.org

December 18, 2025 05:54 PM


Four House Republicans broke with the rest of the GOP conference and voted against a bill to criminalize providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth.

While the bill still passed the lower chamber on Wednesday, with three Democrats voting in support of it, sources told NOTUS that Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress and a member of the Democratic whip team, spoke with some of the Republicans who voted ‘no.’

One of the sources said that while McBride’s conversations were brief, some of the Republicans had expressed openness to opposing the legislation. Even so, Democrats were taken by surprise when the four Republicans — Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Mike Lawler, Mike Kennedy and Gabe Evans — joined the majority of their caucus in opposition to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Protect Children’s Innocence Act.”

Rep. Becca Balint, an Equality Caucus co-chair along with McBride, confirmed to NOTUS that the conversations happened, though she said she was not sure which specific lawmakers McBride spoke with. “Sarah McBride takes her work very seriously, she will talk to anyone,” Balint said.

Read more: https://www.notus.org/congress/mcbride-trans-bill-republicans

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1. Anti-Trans and Anti- LBGTQ

[Marie Marie]

2. She is a class act. She takes all this abuse from the loonies on the right and just continues to

conduct herself with grace and dignity. Good for her!

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3. Which three Democrats voted 'for' this?

Primary-ing minds want to know...

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4. Down further at the OP link

Balint explained that over the last week, there was a “core group” of House Democrats, including Equality Caucus members and House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark’s team, “who were looking at names, we were figuring out who had relationships with whom, and then each of us had separate conversations and then we would huddle back up and share information.”

“We’re most interested in the caucus, right? But we also suspected we might lose some Democrats, which is why Sarah was like, ‘Look, I’ll pick up votes wherever I can,’” Balint continued. (Democratic Reps. Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez and Don Davis voted “yes” on the bill along with most Republicans.)

Henry Cuellar (TX) (pardoned by 45)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX)
Don Davis (NC)

I know the 2 TX Reps. buck Democrats on a bunch of things but this is the first time that I recall Don Davis' name brought up for something like this (like the Texans, his district was redrawn as he is running for reelection).

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5. Well, that figures.

That is the rep for my home area.

I am disgusted now.