Posted on 05/02/2024 5:22:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
The bill would have banned puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries for minors.
The Kansas legislature failed to override the governor’s veto of a ban on transgender medical procedures for children after two Republican lawmakers flipped their votes on Monday.
The failed bill would have banned puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries for minors.
The state Senate successfully voted 27-13 to override the governor’s veto. However, the state House voted 82-43, just two votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to push the bill past the veto.
Two Republicans broke ranks and voted with Democrats to tank the bill. State House Representatives Susan Concannon and Jesse Borjon voted against overriding the governor’s veto even though both had previously voted in favor of the bill.
“We hear of bullying and ask authorities to make it stop,” Concannon said from the House floor. “We hear about mental health, about suicide, and ask why. We’re not listening to the impacted youth. Government involvement is not the answer.”
“I voted for this bill in the past due to concerns about the surgery,” she continued. “With further consideration, this bill is vague beyond the surgery. These decisions belong between the team of professionals and the parents. The youth need our help, not government overreach. To all who have reached out, I hear you, and vote to sustain the governor’s veto.”
The other Republican who voted against the bill, Borjon, said he “strongly supports” prohibiting gender reassignment surgery and “limiting” the use of hormone blockers, but that some parts of the bill “go too far in restricting mental and behavioral health care for children.”
A Republican and physician who voted in favor, State Senator Mark Steffen, slammed the “woke health care system” for encouraging children to obtain medical gender treatments.
“Today I voted to protect our children from being mutilated,” Steffen said.
Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed the ban earlier this month.
Kelly celebrated the legislature’s failure to override her veto in a statement Monday night.
“I am glad that bipartisan members of the legislature have stood firm in saying that divisive bills like House Substitute for Senate Bill 233 have no place in Kansas,” Kelly said. “The legislature’s decision to sustain my veto is a win for parental rights, Kansas families, and families looking to call our state home.”
Under the failed bill, children who were already on puberty blockers, estrogen, or testosterone would have been permitted to continue taking the drugs until the end of this year. However, their doctors would have had to come up with a plan to phase them off the drugs, as well as show that stopping the drugs immediately would endanger the child.
The bill would also have allowed people to sue doctors over transgender medical treatments for children. Doctors could also see their medical licenses revoked if they flouted the ban.
The measure would also have prohibited using state funds like Medicaid to promote transgender medical treatments. State employees would also have been barred from using pronouns that did not match a child’s biological sex.
Two dozen states have laws or policies restricting transgender medical services for children.
In Europe, the momentum is even greater against transgender drugs and procedures for children. England and several other countries have severely restricted medical gender transitions for children.
Both puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones come with serious health risks. Puberty blockers can affect bone growth and density and cause sexual dysfunction, voice damage, and infertility, among other issues. Cross-sex hormones can cause infertility, deadly blood clots, heart attacks, increased cancer risks of the breasts and ovaries, liver dysfunction, worsening psychological illness, and other serious conditions.
Gaydar calibration complete and confirmed.
Instead of saddling up and joining the fight, they stayed at home.
Unfortunately, we do.
Pieces of sh!t !
Jesse Borjon looks like a poofter-snifter.
But in Kansas, these can be recalled.
Don’t know them from Adam, but probably right.
These politician’s secret lives allow them to be controlled!
Maybe not here, but definitely happens!
SO, BOTTOM LINE, KANSAS HAS A LUNATIC IN CHARGE.
THANKS A LOT, KANSAS.
That’s a nice theory, but the Dems and neoCONs have been importing replacement voters for the last 50+ years to dilute our votes.
We need to find out how much money these politicians got from companies that make money off mutilating children... big corp
Either that, or someone has compromising pictures and/or videos.
It seems to always be a mother wanting to desex a son. I would hope someone starts evaluating the moms and dads to see how sick they are.
Members of legislatures routinely vote their district/state, and not how they really believe, when they know their vote will not make a difference. If the position their constituents support is certain to win, or lose, anyway, why not vote the way their constituents want? Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) was a master of this practice.
It is only when the the count is so close that the vote of an individual legislator is absolutely critical to the passage, or defeat, of a bill, that you know what their real position is -- and even then, they may still want to vote the other way, but be afraid to.
“Remember Lot’s Wife.” - The Messiah
Imminent.
Lamps Full.
“Remember Lot’s Wife”
It’s a form of “Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy”.
The mothers revel in the attention they get by having a “Trans Child”. They get special acknowledgement at social gatherings and it makes them feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Meanwhile, the poor child is put on a direct course for suicide at some point.
The mothers are mentally ill and should have their parental rights severed permanently, on this and all future children..................
I don't mind boring though, but the bad weather, yeah, that's something to be concerned about.
I’ve heard the same thing about Wichita. Is it just as bad?
If giving up is an option, we deserve what we get.
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