WATCH: Senator Baldwin Delivers Remarks on NDAA Amendment to Protect Military Parents’ Right to Health Care for Their Kids

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) delivered remarks on the Senate floor on an amendment she introduced with 20 of her colleagues to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2025 that would protect servicemembers’ parental rights to access medically necessary health care for their transgender children. The U.S. House of Representatives-passed NDAA includes language that bans health care for transgender kids and TRICARE patients under the age of 18. 

Baldwin’s amendment is co-sponsored by Senators Ed Markey (D-MA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Patty Murray (D-WA), Andy Kim (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Tina Smith (D-MN), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Alex Padilla (D-CA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), John Fetterman (D-PA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM).

Watch Senator Baldwin’s floor speech here.

A full version of the amendment is available here.

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