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In mid-December, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy found himself in a familiar pickle.
Republicans in Congress were pushing to make it a crime to provide hormone therapy to transgender minors. Roy, an Austin Republican, supported the goal but felt it was an unacceptable expansion of federal power over the states.
