CNN reports that Ohio’s Republican Governor DeWine has vetoed legislation that would have barred transgender youth from receiving gender-affirming care saying government should not override medical and parental decisions.
Per AP: Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a measure Friday that would have banned gender-affirming care for minors, casting the action out of step with many in his own party as thoughtful, limited and “pro-life.”
He simultaneously announced plans to move to administratively ban transgender surgeries until a person is 18, and to position the state to better regulate and track gender-affirming treatments in both children and adults.
At a news conference, DeWine said he hoped the hybrid approach could win the support of legislative Republicans — who immediately signaled they’re considering a veto override — as well as serve as a national model to states, as gender-affirming care restrictions enacted across the country in recent years face lawsuits.
The conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom called DeWine’s veto a betrayal.