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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.
Not all of Florida is expensive.
Anywhere near Orlando and south is.
North and west not so much..................
Samme difference and should be said out loud early and often.
Every leftist who is destroying the country should receive this treatment NONSTOP!
Each of them say, no way, don't go, you could never afford it, and they're right. That's why I've been looking at places like Kansas, Nebraska, maybe Iowa.
But Kansas taxes social security income and their politics are just stupid with their rat leader in the governor mansion. So Nebraska and Iowa are next on my list to check out. If nothing works out, looks like I'll be staying in Indiana longer than I anticipated.
Maybe they had the DOJ or CIA put kiddie porn on their computers and threatened to expose them.
States with no income taxes:
Based on the provided search results, there are nine states with no income tax:
• Alaska • Florida • Nevada • New Hampshire (only taxes interest and dividends) • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Washington (only taxes certain types of income) • Wyoming
These states do not have a state income tax, but it’s essential to note that they may have other taxes, such as property taxes, sales taxes, or excise taxes.
These 2 should try puberty blockers
Payoffs.
Check their foreign bank accounts.
The answer is to QUIT ELECTION RADICAL LEFTIST GOVERNORS, KANSAS!!!!
“BASSTURDS!.....................”
You are being kind.
Last time I checked with my sister near Fort Myer, she said anyone coming to FL now to relocate in their retirement years will have to pay in excess of $4,000 in housing costs, minimum. That’s a big reason why my daughter moved back home to Indiana, housing costs here are lower, though even here they’re higher than in years past. I’m looking for a nice little near ghost town to move to. Costs are ridiculous anywhere else!
524 people, hmmmmmmm. Cost of living?
https://www.townofjayfl.com/businesses/
About what you’d expect from a rural farm town..............
Wonder if they got high speed internet..... :-)
We, in NW Florida, are surrounded by military, Eglin Airforce Base (Largest in the World), Pensacola Naval Base (Blue Angels Home), Duke Field (Army Rangers), Hurlburt Field (Delta Force), Panama City Navy Base (Seals), and Tyndal Airforce Base...................
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Zero Democrats broke ranks.
The Democrat phalanx
The Republican/conservative herd of cats
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