Posted on 04/25/2023 8:33:35 PM PDT by Morgana
FRANKFORT, Kentucky (LifeSiteNews) — The Kentucky legislature on Wednesday overrode a veto by Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear of a bill prohibiting the gender “transitioning” of minors as well as the promotion or indulgence of gender-fluid ideology in public schools, making the new rules law despite his objections.
On Friday, Beshear vetoed S.B. 150, which forbids minors from being subjected to surgical or chemical “sex change” interventions, requires medical providers to wean minors off of already-dispensed puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones, prohibits classroom discussion of sexual or gender identity, discourages state education officials from implementing or recommending “gender-affirming” policies such as using “preferred pronouns” or hiding transitions from parents, and restricts school restrooms and lockers to the correct sex.
The left-wing governor claimed that the bill “rips away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for their children,” euphemistically referring to mutilating “sex change” procedures, and “turns educators and administrators into investigators that must listen in on student conversations and then knock on doors to confront and question parents and families about how students behave and/or refer to themselves or others.”
On Wednesday, however, the Kentucky Senate voted 29–8 to override Beshear’s veto, and the Kentucky House voted 76–23 to do the same, Just the News reports.
“We cannot allow people to continue down the path of fantasy, to where they’re going to end up 10, 20, 30 years down the road and find themselves miserable from decisions that they made when they were young,” said Republican state Rep. Shane Baker.
Studies find that more than 80% of children experiencing gender dysphoria outgrow it on their own by late adolescence, and that even full “reassignment” surgery often fails to resolve gender-confused individuals’ heightened tendency to engage in self-harm and suicide – and may even exacerbate it, including by reinforcing their confusion and neglecting the actual root causes of their mental strife.
On top of those issues, experts outside the U.S. medical establishment further warn that surgically or chemically reinforcing gender confusion imposes irreversible harm on children such as infertility, impairment of adult sexual function, and reduced life expectancy, as well as the psychological toll of being “locked into” physical alterations regardless of whether they change their minds when they mature.
The issue is grimly illustrated in the story of Yaeli Martinez, a 19-year-old to whom “gender transitioning” was touted as a possible cure for her depression in high school, supported by a high school counselor who withheld what she was going through from her mother. The troubled girl killed herself after trying to live as a man for three years.
Many oft-ignored “detransitioners,” individuals who attempted to live under a different “gender identity” before embracing their actual sex, attest to the physical and mental harm of reinforcing gender confusion, as well as to the bias and negligence of the medical establishment on the subject.
Meanwhile, conservatives warn that forcing children and teens to share intimate facilities such as bathrooms, showers, or changing areas with members of the opposite sex violates their privacy rights, subjects them to needless emotional stress, and gives potential male predators a viable pretext to enter female bathrooms or lockers by simply claiming transgender status, regardless of whether they are sincerely dysphoric.
The problem is currently on full display in Virginia, where a grand jury returned charges against fired ex-Loudoun County Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler for allegedly covering up the rape of a female student by a “transgender” classmate in a girls’ bathroom due to its damaging implications for the LGBT movement.
Beshear, who faces a reelection battle this year, has previously seen other vetoes overridden on abortion restrictions, charter schools, election security, and keeping men out of women’s sports.
Good.
This bill takes away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for their children?
The “national divorce” accelerates!
Queer & fear States vs. straight and GREAT States.
Bring it on!
MAGA!
He’s up for reelection.
“The left-wing governor claimed that the bill “rips away the freedom of parents to make medical decisions for their children,””
You know, for moms like Jeanette Jennings who want to turn their 5 year old son into a girl and call her “Jazz”.
It was these Repuclicans that voted against landowner rights which the Beshear vetoed. If you build a lake and stock it on your property under 5 acres, you must have a fishing license. Regardless, if it’s over 5 acres you can fish, but any family or guests MUST have a Ky. fishing license, even on though on private property. Game wardens have more power than the local police and can enter your property and write citations.
The transgender stuff particularly after what happened with UK all SEC swimmer Riley Gaines becoming such a national figure is going to hurt him there.
I figure more laws will pass quickly after what happened in Nashville and with Bud Light.
I agree I was referring to the gov there and I think the trans issue is really going to cost him some votes there in the fall.
“The transgender stuff particularly after what happened with UK all SEC swimmer Riley Gaines becoming such a national figure is going to hurt him there.”
Only if Republicans are willing to tell their donors to STUFF IT, and instead make it into a campaign issue.
If you look at the bills which Babyface Beshear has vetoed, it makes a pretty clear he’s to the left of left wing.
But make no mistake, he owns the votes of the teacher’s union and the public employees. I think the majority of them don’t give a crap what he does as long as he promises them everything they want.
To have reached this point.
5. So Beshear is “up” for re-election. As Judge Roy Bean once said, I hope he gets the conservative swing vote”.
My idiot brother lives in Kentucky. Haven’t spoken to him since he was making excuses for the George Floyd riots and talking about poor Breonna Taylor. He fancies himself as Centrist, but is just plain Clueless.
For years, he insisted that wokeness is only a Blue State problem.
So when I followed all the intimidation that BLM was engaging in there, like trashing a restaurant in Louisville owned by Hispanics, I had to chuckle and say “yeah, it’s only in the Blue States”.
Now his boy, Beshear, is revealing himself to be a true Leftist. And then there was the tranny killer, Audrey Hale, in nearby Tennessee....not to mention his boy, “Moderate” Biden, pushing tramny stuff at full throttle.
Wonder what the idiot has to say about everything that’s happened since our last conversation in June 2020. Probably something along the lines of “yeah, maybe this stuff is starting to get a little out of hand, but I’m gonna keep making my yearly donation to the SPLC”.
Gave me a spark of hope
The bill takes away the freedom of parents wanting to mutilate their children or chemically castrate or spay them.
I see this as a very good thing, stopping a real evil. You?
Stuffed it down his throat.
Excellent.
The official Democratic Party rejects God and embraces evil.
It takes doublethink to call oneself Christian and Democrat.
Great news...
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