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The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act with a GOP provision to strip health care from military families’ transgender kids

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Lawmakers voted 281 to 140 to pass the National Defense Authorization Act , authorizing more than $895 billion in defense spending through next September .

GOP leaders inserted the anti-trans provision after bipartisan negotiations were done.

It's buried on page 399 : “Medical interventions for the treatment of gender dysphoria that could result in sterilization may not be provided to a child under the age of 18 .