Doctors can no longer mutilate minors in Ohio, and women's sports are now protected there thanks to brave Republicans who challenged Gov. Reno on Wednesday.
As CBS News reported, the state Senate voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of House Bill 68, a common-sense measure that seeks to ban gender-affirming care for minors and restrict transgender athletes' participation in girls' and women's sports.
The official tally was 24-8. The Ohio House of Representatives earlier overrode DeWine's veto of Ohio House Bill 68 by a vote of 65 to 28, as TGP's Christina Leila reveals.
With the House and Senate passing their overrides with veto-proof majorities, House Bill 68 now becomes law.
Sen. Nathan Manning of Cuyahoga County was the only “Republican” to join Democrats to vote against the override, CBS News notes.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that DeWine exercised his executive authority to veto House Bill 68 in December, grumbling to reporters at a news conference afterward that the bill was too complicated.
I think it is very important that we all remember that all parties in this case honestly and sincerely believe that their position is the best one to protect children. These are really complex issues, and reasonable people can draw vastly different conclusions. This bill would affect a very small number of Ohio children.
But for those children facing gender dysphoria and for their families, the consequences of this bill could not be more profound.
Republican state Sen. Christina Rogner, one of the bill's sponsors, correctly argued on the Senate floor Wednesday that sexting up minors has become a “profit center” for hospitals seeking to turn them into “permanent patients.”
I continued:
There are men, there are women, there are boys, there are girls, and they are different. Gender is not fluid. There is no such thing as a gender spectrum.
Officials expect the law to take effect in about 90 days, according to CBS News.
