Activists packed a hearing room at the state Capitol Wednesday as state lawmakers took testimony on three proposed bills that would restrict transgender students’ participation in school sports and prohibit minors from accessing gender-affirming health care.

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One proposal would prohibit the use of Medicaid funds to cover the cost of gender-affirming care for patients under age 18. Another would block all Medicaid and Medicare funding from hospitals that provide pediatric gender-affirming care

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A trans Middleton person has used the nonbinary X on IDs to better reflect their identity and appearance. The Trump administration is now requiring people to use the gender they were originally assigned on their birth certificates on passports.

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