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.

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      10 months ago

      He might give lip service; and I may be a bit off on the timing, but as late as the mid-90’s, he was voting against gay marriage.

      The point I’m trying to make though, is that there were tools to win and they’re not talking them. Filibuster. Packing the supreme court. and it’s not just LGBTQ issues that are on the chopping block here… it’s, basically, everything. We’re facing a constitutional crisis because Biden refused to act… because he’s not got with the times and is still playing ‘good ol boy’ horsetrading politics against a team that’s determined to lie, cheat, and steal for every last scrap of power.

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          10 months ago

          yeah, I recognize that. Abortion was in 2019, though. But I doubt very much he has had a change of heart, so much as, simply being, you know, a politician whose got somebody explaining where things are. Did you believe him when he said he had ‘the epiphany’ as a senior in highschool?