As the House is set to vote on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greenes (R-GA) ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth, she is lashing out at a fellow Republican House member for allegedly trying to water down her bill.WTF is Chip Roy doing????? she posted to X, referring to Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). And this guy wants to be attorney general of Texas but refuses to protect children??!!! Related MTG just realized the GOP is sexist as she begs Mike Johnson to pass her anti-trans bill She was referring to her Protect Childrens Innocence Act, a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for trans minors and make accessing such care more difficult for trans adults. She has been trying to move forward with the legislation for years, but even though Republicans control the House, her partys leadership has been loath to give the bill a vote.That is, until she traded a vote for a military appropriations bill last week (the NDAA) for a shot at a floor vote on her anti-trans bill this week. Insights for the LGBTQ+ community Subscribe to our briefing for insights into how politics impacts the LGBTQ+ community and more. Subscribe to our Newsletter today But Republicans narrowly control the House, and Democrats are likely to vote in lockstep against her bill, so even a small number of Republican defectors will tank her bill. And it was already going to face an uphill battle in the Senate.Greene wrote on X that Roy introduced an amendment to her bill that would only make it ban gender-affirming care at facilities that receive federal funding and not all facilities. She then said that Roy was trying to protect Californias pro-trans policies, a searing insult in MAGA circles since California and Gov. Gavin Newsom are often held up as a bogeyman when it comes to trans rights issues.In other words, Chip Roy is trying to change my bill in such a way that his amendment would actually protect Gavin Newsoms California trans child sanctuary state policies and laws!!! Greene wrote. Any privately funded pediatric gender clinic would continue to operate free and clear under Chip Roys amendment!!! Chip Roy has introduced an amendment to gut the commerce clause of my bill, Protect Childrens Innocence Act, and replace it with his.His amendment only cuts federal funding from facilities that receive federal funding for pediatric gender affirming care (transgender surgeries, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) December 16, 2025In a separate post on her official government account, she posted a video of herself on the conspiracy theory-laden show Infowars, calling out Roy, saying shes disappointed that shes in a major fight with him. Both she and host Alex Jones referred to gender-affirming care which is backed by all major medical organizations in the U.S. as the standard of care for trans youth as child abuse.What happened to him? Jones shouted about Roy, acting very surprised by this news.I have no idea! Greene barked back. I cant understand the reasoning for it! She then compared her bill to federal bans on child sex trafficking, even though gender-affirming care is science-backed health care and not abusive. Child abuse is simply wrong and Republicans shouldnt be limiting the scope of criminalizing sexual child abuse. If Chip Roy cant even support protecting children, then he has no right being the Attorney General of Texas! We need fighters, not a Republican who enables Gavin pic.twitter.com/3FmksEpkR8 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) December 17, 2025Roy, for his part, called out Greene for selling her vote on the military appropriations bill in exchange for a floor vote on her anti-trans bill.Marjorie was given this vote this week to buy her vote on the National Defense Authorization Act, he said at a House Rules Committee meeting yesterday. Everybody knows it. It happened right there on the floor of the House.Thats the kind of s**t that keeps happening around this institution all the time, including on our side of the aisle. And Im sick of it.Greene herself openly discussed trading her vote on the NDAA for a vote on her anti-trans bill last week, saying it was part of an arrangement with House leadership negotiated with Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA). Roy: Marjorie was given this vote to buy her vote on the NDAA that's the kind of shit that happens around this institution and I'm sick of it. pic.twitter.com/X5EVhBIRl5 Acyn (@Acyn) December 17, 2025Greene responded that its a shame vote-trading was necessary to get her bill a vote, but thats what it takes. She then accused Roy again of protecting gender-affirming care.Why is Chip fighting so hard to continue the trans agenda on kids? she wrote. On his X account, Roy explained his amendment, claiming that it is necessary to make Greenes bill constitutional. I support criminalizing gender affirming care, but 1) the constitution matters & we should not bastardize it to use interstate commerce to empower federal authorities (see FACE Act), 2) her bill is unlikely to become law, & 3) my amendment makes it more likely to become law, he wrote. I support criminalizing gender affirming care, but 1) the constitution matters & we should not bastardize it to use interstate commerce to empower federal authorities (see FACE Act), 2) her bill is unlikely to become law, & 3) my amendment makes it more likely to become law. https://t.co/6Alc6OWP98 Chip Roy (@chiproytx) December 16, 2025Currently, there are 26 states that ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. Those laws contain exemptions for cisgender youth who want gender-affirming care (like breast reductions for cisgender boys or breast augmentation for cisgender girls) and forced genital surgery on intersex youth. Greenes bill is no differentand would take those bans nationwide.But some Republicans have opposed these bans, including former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R). Some Republicans believe that the government should not dictate to doctors and patients what kind of care can be provided. Given how narrow a majority House Republicans currently have, only a handful of Republicans would have to defect to defeat the bill.The Trevor Project denounced the bill.Everyone in this country should have access to the care they need to stay healthy, including transgender and nonbinary young people, said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, senior vice president of public engagement campaigns for the organization. Personal medical decisions ought to be made between patients, their doctors, and their families not through a one-size-fits-all mandate from the federal government. The multitude of efforts we are seeing from federal legislators to strip transgender and nonbinary youth of the health care they need is deeply troubling.If implemented, these efforts will have detrimental impacts on transgender and nonbinary youth in particular. The Trevor Projects research shows that access to this care is associated with significantly lower rates of depression and suicide risk among transgender and nonbinary young people who receive it. Its no hyperbole to say that restricting this medically necessary care risks the lives of transgender and nonbinary youth in communities all across the U.S.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.