Ohio’s Republican governor vetoes trans care restriction and sports ban

NBC News / Comcast ^ | December 29, 2023 | By Jo Yurcaba

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Ohio’s governor vetoed a bill Friday that would have restricted both transition-related care for minors and transgender girls’ participation on school sports teams.

Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto makes him one of only two Republican governors to veto a restriction on gender-affirming care, alongside Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson in 2021, and one of only three Republican governors to veto a trans athlete bill after Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb last year.

In a press conference on Friday following his veto, DeWine said the “gut-wrenching” decision about whether a minor should have access to gender-affirming care “should not be made by the government, should not be made by the state of Ohio,” rather it should be made by the child’s parents and doctors.

Prior to vetoing the bill, DeWine told The Associated Press that he visited three Ohio children’s hospitals to learn more about transition-related care and spoke to families who were both helped and harmed by it.

“We’re dealing with children who are going through a challenging time, families that are going through a challenging time,” he said. “I want, the best I can, to get it right.”

The Ohio General Assembly, which is controlled by a Republican supermajority, can override the governor’s veto with a three-fifths majority vote.

[Yolanda]

Gov. Mike Dewine says sexual mutilation of young boys and girls is okey dokey with him.
If parents and Doctors who profit from cutting off
young boys penis’s and young girls breasts choose to mutilate, just do it!

[Theodore R.]

TX has a large number of RINOs besides Senator Cornyn serving in the state House of Representatives.

[DPMD]

No; Ohio’s governor, who believes he is a Republican.

[MinorityRepublican]

I wonder what kind of photos they have of him.

Epstein's island.