One week after vetoing a bill to protect kids, Ohio governor Mike DeWine has decided it's an EMERGENCY that he put a stop to trans surgeries on minors.
Yeah, I think the "emergency" had less to do with protecting kids and more to do with his bleeding support and being trashed by conservatives for his cowardice a week ago.
The bill would also have banned cross-sex hormones and so-called puberty blockers for children, measures DeWine's executive order apparently omits. The bill would also have addressed fairness in women's sports, an issue DeWine's order also does not address.
So, basically, the bill DeWine vetoed would have banned surgeries, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, AND protected girls sports. So DeWine has decided to cherry-pick 1 of those 4 issues that seem to be the most common sense.
DeWine is against trans surgeries (an easy issue), but is still in favor of puberty blockers, to prevent kids from developing, and cross-sex hormones, both of which can irreversibly damage children.
He's also cool with dudes changing in front of girls in locker rooms, I guess.
Or at least he's happy to, essentially, line-item veto those three provisions.
Here was part of DeWine's defense of his veto last week:
While DeWine recounted meeting with "people on all sides of the issue to hear their concerns," including detransitioners and critics of transgender interventions, he also echoed pro-transgender activists who claim that minors with gender dysphoria (the painful and persistent condition of identifying with the gender other than their biological sex) will commit suicide if they can't take hormones or undergo other "treatments" to make their bodies resemble those of the opposite sex.
"Ultimately, I believe this is about protecting human life," DeWine said. "Many parents have told me that their child would not have survived, would be dead today" without such interventions.
Yeah, anyone who repeats the lie about kids killing themselves without drastically altering their bodies has fully bought into the trans madness. Repeating these claims is WILD for a "conservative."
Matt Walsh sums it up pretty well:
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