Sen. JD Vance introduced a bill to criminalize providing certain treatments to transgender minors.
Other Republican senators told Insider that they're open to the idea as well.
Asked about potentially harmful effects on transgender people who are already receiving care, Vance conceded that the bill is largely a messaging device for now.
"But it doesn't have any effect on the capacity of people to receive this care if they're adults.
While the bill has the support of 46 mostly hard-right House Republicans, Vance just has one official co-sponsor in the Senate: Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
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