Atlanta (AP) -The Senate of the Georgia on Tuesday said goodbye on Tuesday.
The senators voted 33-19 for the Senate Bill 39, which would exclude state money for gender-known care in state employees and health insurance plans for the university, medicaid and the prison system.
The measure was repeated by Senator Blake Tilley, a Republican of Vidalia, who repeatedly described the legislation as only gender -known operations for minors until he recognized the Democrats that they actually also cover a wide range of care for adults.
“This calculation says that we will not use government taxpayers to pay transgender operations,” said Tillery.
If the legislation was issued, Georgia, which has been partially banned, would maintain gender -specific care for minors at the top of the limitation of the financing of gender -known care for adults.
Democrats refer to court decisions to say that this would violate the federal law. They also say that Republicans bully a politically unpopular minority to score political points.
“All of these efforts will not extinguish transgender men, transgender women from our society,” said Senator Rashaun Kemp, a democrat in Atlanta who found that he was a married gay man with children. “And that seems what this body tries to do.”
Georgia has enclosed a number of lawsuits that granted gender-specific care services for state employees, employees from the public university, medical and state prisoners.
Some supporters say that the state has concluded binding contracts in these settlements and cannot legally reverse the business. But Tilley argues that the state can change the conditions of health insurance contracts.
In the lawsuits it was claimed that the rejection of services towards transgender people is illegally discriminatory after the Supreme Court decided in 2020 that employers could not discriminate on lesbian, gays, bisexual or transgender employees “due to gender”.
“The law is clearly illegal, frankly,” said Harold Jones II II. The democratic minority leader of the Senate after the debate on Tuesday. “There is no hope that the law would withstand a kind of constitutional challenge.”
However, Tilley said that he did not believe that the decision of the Supreme Court in 2020 blocked his bill.
“It doesn’t mean if you are grown up, you cannot have transgender care,” said Tilley. “If you are grown up, you cannot use state taxpayers dollars to have transgender operations.”
The Republicans of Georgia have a priority of the ban on transgender girls and women before playing school and college sports in accordance with the instructions from Donald Trump on transgender people, but many states already have this step undertook. The current law of Georgia gives a high school sports federation this authority that banned transgender athletes in 2022.
The spokesman for the State House spokesman Jon Burns, a Republican from Newington, said that he wanted a “close focus” on sports legislation and expressed little interest in other legislation. This approach reflects differences between the Senate, in which the Republicans dealt with 33-23 and the house, where the GOP majority is less secure. The Republicans of the Senate often hired their legislation to GOP partisans, while the Republicans of the Republicans of the representatives had to work for maintaining a majority of 100 to 80.
The house limestone reflects the results more nationwide, where the Republicans usually win, but forceful democrats can beat frail GOP candidates. This lively gave Georgia two democratic US senators before Trump won the state in 2024 with 2 percentage points.
