Sarah McBride Lobbied Some Republicans to Vote Against an Anti-Trans Bill [View all]
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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