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25 Activists Protesting Gender-Affirming Care Proposals Arrested Outside Department of Health
Them ^ | February 18, 2026 | Samantha Riedel

Posted on 02/19/2026 6:46:21 AM PST by fwdude

On February 17, more than 50 activists with the Gender Liberation Movement (GLM) and ACT UP blockaded the entrance to HHS headquarters in the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, representatives for the coalition said in a press release obtained via email. The groups organized the action to protest three HHS draft rules unveiled in December, which would prohibit Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children’s Health Insurance Program plans from funding gender-affirming care for minors and some 18-year-olds. The protest took place on the final day of public comment for the rules.

Twenty-five people, including GLM cofounder Eliel Cruz, were arrested by Department of Homeland Security agents during the protest, Cruz told Them via email on Wednesday. They were then handed over to D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and jailed for around twelve hours, Cruz said, alleging that most of those arrested were denied phone calls to attorneys or family members.

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Boo Hoo. You can't block the entrance to a federal government building with impunity.

Enjoy the punity.

1 posted on 02/19/2026 6:46:21 AM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Can anyone imagine in their wildest imaginations that this issue would be controversial even 10 years ago?


2 posted on 02/19/2026 6:48:39 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

Spay and Neuter crowd ?


3 posted on 02/19/2026 6:49:07 AM PST by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: fwdude

Members of GLM are G L U M.


4 posted on 02/19/2026 6:49:48 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: fwdude
Gender-Affirming Care Proposals

Foundational beliefs: You are the wrong gender. A mistake was made. God screwed up. You are not supposed to be this way. We are going to fix you with surgery, hormones and counseling. We will make you into something different. And that is how we will affirm your gender.

5 posted on 02/19/2026 6:49:54 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Law and Order -- only one of our political parties believes in it.)
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To: fwdude

Violent Insurrection is suddenly OK with the Left.


6 posted on 02/19/2026 6:50:59 AM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: fwdude

No, never imagined this level of massive mental illness.


7 posted on 02/19/2026 6:51:38 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: fwdude

I guess the bastards burned out on their ICE riots and have moved on to the next commie cause.


8 posted on 02/19/2026 6:51:40 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (**** ICE (Illegal Criminal Emigrants).)
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To: ClearCase_guy
And that is how we will affirm your gender.

Transgenderism is nothing but an elaborate costume, sometimes a flesh costume. I liken it to those extreme, horrific body piercings and modifications you sometimes see on social media. It has nothing to do with health and everything to do with self-adulation.

9 posted on 02/19/2026 6:53:40 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude
Can anyone imagine in their wildest imaginations that this issue would be controversial even 10 years ago?

Exactly. Good grief - gimme a break with BS like “ Gender Liberation Movement.”

10 posted on 02/19/2026 6:53:52 AM PST by Allegra (We will not be emotionally blackmailed into backing off what we voted for. )
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To: fwdude
more than 50 activists with the Gender Liberation Movement (GLM) and ACT UP

That's not activists protesting. Its the beginnings of another paid riot. Its good that they were arrested.

11 posted on 02/19/2026 6:54:44 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Give us government money so we can mutilate children!!


12 posted on 02/19/2026 6:55:37 AM PST by PGR88
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gender-affirming care

They do love their Orwellian Newspeak, don't they?

13 posted on 02/19/2026 6:55:53 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: fwdude

Never use the Newspeak term “gender-affirming care” without quotation marks.


14 posted on 02/19/2026 6:56:56 AM PST by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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To: fwdude

Take them right too the sanitarium .


15 posted on 02/19/2026 6:59:51 AM PST by spincaster (i)
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To: fwdude

My simple live and let live rule.

I don’t care what you look like.
I don’t care what you think.
I don’t care what you believe.
I don’t care what you do.

But DO NOT compel me in any way to honor it, celebrate it, participate in it, or PAY FOR IT!

If you want to mangle your body to satisfy some sexually perverse fetish, do it with YOUR MONEY!


16 posted on 02/19/2026 7:00:37 AM PST by Westbrook (democRATs are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: Westbrook

My sentiments precisely.


17 posted on 02/19/2026 7:05:51 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: PGalt
No, never imagined this level of massive mental illness.

And it describes a major political party!!!

18 posted on 02/19/2026 7:06:33 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

I hope law enforcement assesses which of these 50 are dangerous psychotics, BEFORE they go on killing sprees. Odds are, at least one of them already posts threats and has a manifesto.


19 posted on 02/19/2026 7:08:34 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: fwdude

The foot soldier delusionaries dispatched by the Mutilation Industrial Complex are protesting... cuts?

They really need to make up their minds.


20 posted on 02/19/2026 7:10:04 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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