Ohio has banned gender-affirming care for minors and restricted transgender women’s and girls’ participation on sports teams, a move that has families of transgender children scrambling over how best to care for them.
The Republican-dominated Senate voted Wednesday to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto. The new law bans gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapies, and restricts mental health care for transgender individuals under 18. The measure also bans transgender girls and women from girls and women’s sports teams at both the K-12 and collegiate level.
Banning cosmetic surgery on minors is probably not a bad idea but restricting mental health care is about what I’d expect from America.
That “cosmetic surgery” saves lives. It definitely did for my daughter’s friend. He was not doing so well before his top surgery, and now he’s so much happier. It’s a crazy difference.
The fact that you call gender-affirming care “cosmetic” shows you have no idea what you’re talking about.