Ohio bans gender-affirming care and restricts transgender athletes despite GOP governor's veto
Ohio bans gender-affirming care and restricts transgender athletes despite GOP governor's veto
The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate has voted to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation banning gender-affirming care for minors.
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.
We could have protected trans people's rights at the national level, but it would have required getting rid of the filibuster.
"But the GOP might use it against us!" say Dems while the GOP actively uses it against the Dems making any kind of positive change.
If they would ditch it then they can accomplish something so that people will vote for them and then they only need the Presidency, Senate, or House to be able to accomplish the same thing as the filibuster. Keeping the filibuster when the GOPs entire platform is obstruction is just giving them more options to obstruct.
“But the GOP might use it against us!” say Dems while the GOP actively uses it against the Dems making any kind of positive change.
Historically, just for example, Biden has voted against LGBTQ rights. he flipped in 2019- supposedly- because of his presidential campaign. In the Senate, he consistently voted against gay marriage. Why any one things the nominal leader of the DNC would suddenly start caring about trans rights when he never cared about gay rights.... is quite beyond me.
Same goes for Abortion.
Same goes for Climate change.
same goes for basically anything that is a progressive concern of the 40 year old "young voters"
Probably would not have even required getting rid of it. Go back to the days when people had to actively filibuster and I'm sure it would have been passed.
Dems are so infuriatingly bad at politics, it’s almost incomprehensible if not intentional.
Watch, they will get rid of the filibuster, but they’ll wait to do it until the end of this year, handing the repugs everything in the process.
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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.
Pretty sure his veto was just performative as he knew it would be overridden.
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Sport for biological girls and women should be protected as a category. Before you say "it's such a small number, it doesn't matter"... Check out SheWon.org.
Neat, just remove actual facts. Very nice.
You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
Conservative positions are always the same, "I want X to be true, therefore.." vs the natural, "Okay so starting from a blank slate.. let's be curious.."
I truly don't understand the end-game for transgender folks. People are going to continue to be born with both sex organs. People are going to continue to transition between genders naturally (due to how gender works at a biological level). The line between male and female has and always will be blurry, and in many cases, nonexistant.
The natural outcome of this will be a default genderless society where people express the gender they want to be, which seems harmless to me, but from a conservative PoV people being happy in a way they don't understand is the end of the world? It's so unusual because their entire world view is, "Just let me do what I want" while simultaneously, "No, YOU can't live how you want, JUST ME." Its inherently conflicting. But once again, to see that one would have to have a world view based in reason. And as any reason-driven person has realized, conservative positions dissolve under scrutiny of reason (why Jon Stewart is so popular, his entire sctick was comedically applying reason to conservative behavior).
Revisiting the original statement. All the evidence in the world won't change a conservative's mind, because they prefer not to use their mind. Anger anger anger. Fear fear fear. Conformity conformity conformity. Those seem to be the only thoughts they are willing to let cross their mind.
A conservative, "It's not normal!" The idea that "normal" is a social construct is not a thought they will allow to be processed. (Note they cannot use "natural" here because it is quite natural in many species to change gender.) Humans just happen to also share that trait, an idea they cannot seem to grasp.
I ramble, should have edited this a bit, but despite the poor writing I got a few ideas I wanted to get across. Apologies for the disjointed nature of this reply.
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 number of gender affirming surgeries on minors actually occuring each year is very small. looks like about 800 between 2019 and 2021. if a percentage of those cases could have been potential suicide deaths, then its likely worth the small risk of them regretting it later, especially since studies of gender affirming surgery show very low regret rates.
Laws like this one (as well as far right fear mongering in general) misrepresent that situation even more than you'd think. Only 800 minors in the country (out of ~80 million depending on how you count, so ~0.001% of all US minors) got any transition related surgeries over the course of 2 years. On top of that, there aren't a lot of surgeons who do these surgeries, and some of them won't operate on minors. So because of the limited number of surgeons, trans people often have to travel across at least state lines to get these surgeries, which is why none of this very small population of minors even got their surgeries in Ohio.
These laws are made all the more sinister when you realize half of their content outlaws things that aren't even happening entirely for the sake of feeding into bigoted fear mongering and dehumanization - "they're coming for your kids."
The fact that you call gender-affirming care "cosmetic" shows you have no idea what you're talking about.