Republican governor's veto overridden by Republicans: Trans procedures and boys v. girls in sports banned

Mike DeWine (RINO)

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine was hoping for a strange, new respect from liberals who favor boys competing against girls in sports, and for children to have their genitals mutilated in order to pretend to be the opposite gender. 

DeWine vetoed a bill put forth by Ohio Republicans that would ban transgender procedures and hormone treatment from being done to children, and also barred boys and men from competing against females in athletic competitions.

But Republicans in the Ohio state Senate voted to override DeWine's veto, following House Republicans’ January 10 vote to do the same, with that vote ending up 65-28.

It looks like DeWine's political career may be in jeopardy, but he has a shot at working for MNSBC or CNN. 

The bill in question, House Bill 68 is made up of two acts: the “Save Adolescents from Experimentation Act” and the “Save Women’s Sports Act.” It bans transgender procedures on minors, such as  total breast removal on girls who think that they're boys, and other genital mutilation procedures for children with the mental illness known as gender dysphoria. It also prohibits males from competing in female sports across the state, grades K-12, and the collegiate level because males have a biological advantage over females.

When DeWine had first vetoed the bill, he argued that passing the it would hinder parental rights to allow their easily influenced child and/or parent, to perform irreversible procedures on their child based on the latest leftist fad.

“Ohio would be saying that the state, that the government, knows better what is medically best for a child than the two people who love that child the most, the parents,” DeWine argued.

In fact, DeWine would be wrong. That's akin to saying the a mother who suffers from Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy knows what's best for her child by giving him or her unnecessary invasive medical treatment. Being a parent usually means you love your child, but it does not necessarily translate into knowing what is best for him or her.

He also made the claim that he was acting to preserve “life,” because he bought into the notion that kids who don't transition will commit suicide. Statistical data shows that the suicide rate is just as high for those who transition as it is for those with gender dysphoria who don't get their bodies mutilated.

“Ultimately, I believe this is about protecting human life,” DeWine naively said. “Many parents have told me that their child would not have survived, would be dead today, if they had not received the treatment they received from one of Ohio’s children’s hospitals. I’ve also been told by those who are now grown adults that but for this care, they would have taken their life when they were teenagers.”

Many parents who say such things are wrong. And in fact, young kids overwhelmingly grow out of their gender dysphoria later on and lead normal lives as adults when their genitals are left intact.

Though Republicans are generally in agreement that these types of irreversible procedures are harmful for children and therefore should be banned, Republicans like former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie have argued in the way of DeWine because like the Ohio governor, Christie is also a RINO in more ways than one.

While making his short-lived 2024 presidential bid, Christie argued that procedures like double mastectomies and penis-removing vaginoplasty surgeries are a “parent’s decision.” By that logic, so is abortion even after nine months.

Anyway, the law will take effect in about three months and one day these kids will look back on their childhood and be grateful they didn't have the procedures.

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Louisiana legislature sticks it to the Dem. Governor's veto re: child sex change ban

LA Gov. uses finger guns

It's rare that one sees the Louisiana legislature vote to override a governor's veto but it happened. 

Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed a bill that protects children from having the genitals and/or breasts chopped off as well as other life altering procedures. Edwards is pond scum floating in a cess pool.

The bill is judiciously called the “Stop Harming Our Kids Act,” and it will prevent doctors from performing transgender procedures like double mastectomies on girls who identify as boys and administering puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.

Only pond scum floating in a cess pool calling himself a governor would veto such a bill.

The House voted 75-23 to override the Democrat's veto, with 69 Republicans being joined by six Democrats. In the Senate, lawmakers voted 28-11 to adopt the measure.

“As a counselor, I know of no other mental health disorder where we affirm distorted thinking. We don’t affirm the distorted thinking of anorexic children who suffer body dysmorphia, do we? And since studies have shown that gender dysphoria does not persist in most children past puberty, why would any so called treatment include irreversible medical procedures,” said Louisiana Republican Rep. Laurie Schlegel. “The suggestion that the only hope for children experiencing gender dysphoria is cross-sex hormone therapy, puberty blockers, or life changing sex operations is ludicrous. These children need intensive mental health counseling.”

Beautifully expressed.

When the bill was discussed, Sen. John Morris (R) said that “experimental procedures on minors that are irreversible” are not health care, citing long-term health problems, such as fertility issues, that have been associated with transgender procedures. 

Republican Senator Mike Fesi pointed out the regret from people who “transitioned” at a young age and wished their parents had not allowed them to go through with the transgender procedures. If Democrats had their way, parents would be taken out of the loop and replaced by teachers or someone else on the far-left.

Democrat Senator Jay Luneau claimed that the bill would violate parental rights and contained vague provisions that would be unconstitutional, a brave stance from someone from the party that would kill the unborn or mutilate the genitals of living kids.

Before this current vote, there have only been two successful vetoes of a gubernatorial veto since 1974, when the state adopted a new constitution, according to the Associated Press. [The constitution was not according to the Associated Press, it was reported by them.]

It looks like there may be hope for the nation after all.

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Ohio ready to protect sanctity of life: now a RINO must act

In a wonderful move to protect the sanctity of human life, the Ohio State Senate passed the "Heartbeat Bill" Wednesday.

This bill would ban abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as five weeks. The bill went back and forth after the Senate amended it, but now it's ready for Gov. John "Most Punchable Face In Washington" Kasich to sign it. 

Due to the fact that Kasich is only a pretend conservative, he will likely veto it. But now that he has hinted at wanting a run at the presidency in 2020, he just might try to win the hearts and minds of conservatives and sign it. Just don't make the mistake of believing that he has anything more than his own ambitions in mind no matter what he decides to do.

Ohio pro-life advocacy groups are hopeful (if Kasich refuses to allow babies in the womb the right to life) the legislature will have time and be willing to convene for a veto override because of the magnitude of this bill’s importance.

If the veto happens and rules to pass the bill, Kasich will look like a loser to both parties, but the GOP in particular.

Ohio's action is one of the staunchest pro-life legal measures in the country as it would require an abdominal ultrasound to detect a heartbeat, and if detected, killing the baby would be illegal.

Aliens might be looking down on our planet wondering why did we ever killed our babies in the first place. 

6 weeks

Pro-life advocacy and conservative policy groups, including the James Dobson Family Institute and Live Action, are encouraged by the passage of this solid measure to protect life and support the legislation. This comes as a welcome opportunity for Ohio to lead other states in reclaiming their constitutional authority to determine law on sanctity of life issues.

But perhaps most compellingly argument for this bill comes from Josh Craddock who writes, governments are obligated to preserve and protect the right to life at all stages of development as a substantive moral and legitimate legal authority issue:

“The structure of the argument is simple. The Fourteenth Amendment’s use of the word ‘person’ guarantees due process and equal protection to all members of the human species. The preborn are members of the human species from the moment of fertilization. Therefore, the Fourteenth Amendment protects the preborn. If one concedes the minor premise (that preborn humans are biological members of the human species), all that must be demonstrated is that the term ‘person,’ in its original public meaning at the time of the Fourteenth Amendment’s adoption, applied to all members of the human species.”

The Constitution recognizes the government’s obligation to protect the rights of the individual, and the Founders understood the innate personhood of the unborn and all the rights and privileges that come with being human. 

The Founders undoubtedly intended to protect all the rights of the yet unborn and the future generations of Americans, with the right to life being the foundational and most basic and essential right.

Kasich is likely to wait until the last minute to veto the bill so that there isn't time enough to override it. He's just lucky his parents didn't do what he is willing to allow other parents to do. 

But maybe I'm wrong--I hope so.

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