Three Ohioans came to Joyce's D.C. office in February 2026 to lobby for trans rights. His staffer put his phone on top of the tablet he had brought to take notes, and leaned back. Two House Republicans have signed the bill to turn the shut-off LGBTQ+ youth crisis line back on. Joyce isn't one of them.
He said it on Tony Perkins' podcast, promoting a bill he wrote that would let people sue doctors retroactively, under strict liability, with no waiver allowed and any ambiguity resolved against the doctor. It cleared House Judiciary 15-8 in July.
The Parents Bill of Rights passed the House 213-208 in 2023 and stalled. It requires library inventories for parents, parental consent before an elementary or middle school puts a child's chosen name on a school form, notice to parents whenever a school employee changes one anywhere else — and it picked up two Boebert amendments about which bathroom trans students use.
In the same interview she said of the Biden White House, 'I never saw so many fairies in the White House, dancing around.' A year later she was writing federal legislation about transgender people.
Asked whether the Pulse massacre changed his mind on LGBTQ job protections, the House Rules chairman said Pulse was "a young person's nightclub" that was "mostly Latinos." That same week, his committee blocked a vote on the protections.
Four Ohio Republicans voted for the Respect for Marriage Act. Balderson — who belongs to two caucuses that sell themselves as the party's pragmatists — voted no in July 2022 and no again in December. Ohio's 2004 ban is still in the state constitution.
H.Res.1338 doesn't just rename June. It says Americans are 'inundated with perverse Pride Month displays,' and it asks the House to formally stop recognizing Pride Month at all.
Glenn Thompson voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, then gave the father-of-the-groom toast at his gay son's wedding three days later. Five months after that, when the bill came back with religious protections added, he voted no again.
In July 2022 Meuser said protecting same-sex and interracial marriage was an easy call that hurt nobody's religious rights. In December he voted no, saying the bill threatened religious freedom. The only thing that changed was that the bill added religious freedom protections.