The California Assembly doubled down on forcing medical coverage for dangerous and disfiguring “transgender” medical mutilation of individuals – including minors – who reject their innate, God-given sex.
AB 1876 bans discrimination in health care insurance based on a person’s “sex,” along with other characteristics such as race, color, age or disability. It then redefines “sex” in health care plans “to include gender identity, sexual orientation, and related characteristics.”
The bill sailed through two committees before passing the full Assembly, 56-17. An additional seven members had “No Vote Recorded,” which count for no votes in the legislature.
California Family Council, a Focus on the Family-allied organization, explained AB 1876 was “framed as a ‘nondiscrimination’ measure,” adding:
By redefining sex to include gender identity, sexual orientation, and related characteristics, the bill would prohibit insurers from denying or limiting coverage for procedures tied to gender transition if those procedures are covered in other contexts.
That means puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and irreversible surgeries would be treated as protected medical services, making it far more difficult for insurers to question their necessity, especially for minors. The bill also bans categorical exclusions for gender-transition procedures, effectively narrowing insurers’ ability to weigh long-term risks, evolving evidence, or patient age.
Dubbed the “Fair Care for All Act,” Assemblywoman Dawn Addis introduced AB 1876 in the Assembly Judiciary Committee, saying, “I’ll note that this is a priority bill of the LGBT caucus and sponsored by Equality California.”
California’s LGBT caucus has 14 members, all Democrats, making up 12% of the entire Legislature and 16% of Democrat legislators. Equality California has tremendous influence in the state Legislature. The largest LGBT state advocacy group in the country, it is responsible for helping to propose and pass 205 bills and resolutions in California since its founding in 1999.
The legislation was also supported by groups like Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, the ACLU and Reproductive Freedom for All California. Planned Parenthood is the largest suppliers of opposite-sex hormones in the U.S., helping to destroy the reproductive capacity of more than 40,000 individuals in 2023 alone. “Reproductive freedom” evidently includes the “right” to remove healthy organs and mutilate one’s body.
Addis said the mandate was necessary because of the Trump administration’s actions to protect children from destructive gender ideology.
Shortly after assuming office, President Donald Trump signed executive orders making it official government policy that there are only two genders: male and female, and protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation.
These orders led the Department of Justice to target medical professionals and institutions that mutilate children with experimental “transgender” interventions that leave children sterile, sick, and permanently damaged.
The president’s actions also led to the Department of Health and Human Services releasing an important report on the paucity of evidence for transgender medical interventions: Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Review of Evidence and Best Practices.
The agency evaluated 17 systematic reviews of chemical and surgical treatments inflicted on youth and found “significant risks – including irreversible harms such as infertility – while finding very weak evidence of benefit.”
But the California Legislature seems bent on promoting these harms – and forcing insurance providers to participate in the damage.
California Family Council Vice President Greg Burt voiced the pro-family organization’s opposition to AB 1876:
By treating an insurer’s denial of coverage as unlawful discrimination, AB 1876 removes insurers’ discretion to assess medical necessity, long-term risks, and evolving scientific evidence, particularly when the patient is a minor.
These interventions carry serious lifelong consequences, including impacts on bone density, fertility, cardiovascular health, and neurological development. Surgical procedures performed on minors are permanent and irreversible.
He added that the bill also “raises serious religious liberty concerns, forcing employers and individuals to subsidize procedures that violate deeply held beliefs.”
AB 1876 now moves on to the California Senate.
