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- Sen. JD Vance introduced a bill to criminalize providing certain treatments to transgender minors.
- He has defended the sweeping bill, saying it's a "long way from becoming law."
- Other Republican senators told Insider that they're open to the idea as well.
Sen. JD Vance on Tuesday introduced a sweeping bill that would make it a federal crime to provide certain medical treatments to transgender people under the age of 18.
"I think the more that we learn about so-called 'gender affirming care,' the more that we learn that the medical science is being way outpaced by the way that patients are actually being treated," Vance told Insider at the Capitol on Thursday.