Gov. Mike DeWine announced the veto in a news conference, saying it's a question of life and that parents need to make these decisions for their kids.

Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill that nearly all of his Republican colleagues supported but many in LGBTQ communities and child health leaders opposed. The bill DeWine turned away would have banned trans youth from participating in girls’ sports and would have limited the access of trans children under 18 to some medical treatments related to their gender identity.

“Ultimately, I believe this is about protecting lives. Many parents told me their child would be dead today if they did not receive this treatment,” DeWine said, describing “gut-wrenching decisions that should be made by parents” and informed by doctors and medical professionals.

“These decisions should not be made by the government,” DeWine said, but by the parents who know their kids best.

  • ryan213@lemmy.ca
    92·
    11 months ago

    Too good to be true… what’s really happening that we’re getting distracted from??

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      They’re giving a not insignificant portion of our weed taxes to the cops in direct defiance of the ballot initiative we used to legalize it and we’re mad about it as well as reducing the number of plants per household and various other ways of fucking with our marijuana legalization

    • key@lemmy.keychat.orgEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I wish I had your degree of faith and trust in the government to be well-coordinated. With typical state government time lines if this was meant to cover something up it was probably something that happened 2 years ago.

    • PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      Ohio is still purple enough that DeWine has to play to both sides. Our governors are always either “principled” conservatives (non-fascist theocrats) or corpo-dems.