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Ohio Senate Overrides Gov. Veto, Passes Law Banning Sex-Change Treatments for Minors

by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Ohio’s Republican-led Senate voted Wednesday to override a veto by the state’s Republican governor and pass a law which prohibits minors from receiving sex-change treatments and bars transgender athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s K-12 and college sports teams. The Ohio House of Representatives voted to override DeWine’s veto two weeks ago.

With 24-8 Senate votes to override the veto by Gov. Mike DeWine, House Bill 68 will come into force in 90 days.

DeWine’s opposition to the bill goes against the Republican grain on transgenderism, an issue which has largely been legislated along party lines: Democrats have been in favor of “gender-affirming” treatments and laws, while conservatives have been fighting against them.

In a statement on the Senate floor prior to Wednesday’s vote, Sen. Kristina Roegner (R-Hudson) said: “It is not possible for a man to become a woman or a woman to become a man. There is no such thing as gender-affirming care. You can’t affirm something that doesn’t exist. Gender dysphoria is real and these people do suffer. But what they need to know is that they are loved for who they are. They need compassion.”

Welcoming the new law, Peter Range, CEO of Ohio Right to Life, told Axios: “Our daughters should not be forced to compete against males in sports, plain and simple, and our children should not be undergoing irreversible sterilizations and experimental transgender medicine.”