Out Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE) called out House Republican leadership for scheduling multiple votes on anti-trans bills this week instead of trying to pass a bill to stop health care costs from skyrocketing at the end of the year. They would rather have us focus in and debate a misunderstood and vulnerable one percent of the population, she said during a press scrum outside the Capitol with out Rep. Julie Johnson (D-TX) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), instead of focusing in on the fact that they are raiding everyones health care in order to pay for tax breaks for the wealthiest one percent. Related A Person With Parents: How Sarah McBride and her family stay strong in the face of transphobia All Republican politicians care about is making the rich richer and attacking trans people.McBride was referring to two bills that are scheduled for a vote this week: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greenes (R-GA) Protect Childrens Innocence Act, which would ban gender-affirming care for trans youth and make such care harder to access for trans adults, and Rep. Dan Crenshaws (R-TX) bill to ban Medicaid from covering gender-affirming care, which Greene has also co-sponsored. 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 Meanwhile, subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA, or Obamacare) healthcare policies are set to expire at the end of this year, something that will increase what many people pay in premiums each month starting next January. Republican leadership refused to schedule a vote on a bill to extend those subsidies, but, in a major defeat for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), four House Republicans broke ranks today to sign a petition with all the Democrats to force a vote on the bill.They are obsessed with trans people, McBride said. I actually think they think more about trans people than trans people think about trans people. McBride then called out Republicans for using trans peoples rights as political pawns and said that standards of care should be decided by trained professionals, not politicians in Washington whose medical knowledge includes thinking that vaccines are the equivalent of the Holocaust, a reference to Rep. Greene.I get its hard to understand what it feels like to be trans, she said. I get that its hard to understand what it feels like to be me. I get that its hard to understand this care and the need for it.But one of the things that gets so lost in this conversation is that the transgender adults of today were kids once. I was a kid once. I didnt have the courage to come out until I was 21, but its a fact I have known about myself for my entire life.And my biggest regret in life is that I never had a childhood with that pain of hiding ones identity, she continued. I marvel at the courage of transgender young people today who are sharing themselves with their families and this world, despite the toxicity and the hate that too often emanates from the building behind me. A vote on Greenes bill is expected later today.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.