Republican Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced On Friday, he announced a ban on gender reassignment surgeries for minors, while allowing parents to obtain puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for their children.
The movement has pushed both sides of the transgenderism debate by outlawing extreme sexual mutilation procedures on minors while allowing the initiation of social and chemical sex changes in the name of parental rights. It seems that the purpose is to appease the people. The governor spoke at a press conference days after vetoing a Republican-led bill that would have protected children from both gender reassignment procedures and hormones, and protected women's and girls' sports teams. announced several proposed regulations on the subject.
“One week ago today, I vetoed House Bill 68. A week later, I still feel as strongly about it today as I did that day,” DeWine said Friday. Ta. “I believe that parents, not the government, should make these very important medical decisions for their children. ”
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In addition to outlawing the procedure for disinterring the bodies of sexually confused minors, DeWine has also released rules for public comment along with the Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addictions. , and stated that the rule targets “night flight” providers. Alternatively, some clinics offer large amounts of sex-change drugs without providing quality treatment. surely, report There are clinics across the country that prescribe sex change drugs after just 30 minutes.
“Frankly, we are concerned that there may be overnight providers and clinics that prescribe medications to adults without counseling or basic standards to ensure quality care.” he said.
The draft regulations would require a multidisciplinary team, including but not limited to endocrinologists, bioethicists, and psychiatrists, to supervise individuals throughout the gender reassignment process.
The rule also requires a “comprehensive care plan” that includes “fully informed consent from patients and parents when working with children” about the risks associated with sex-change drugs and sex-reassignment surgery. include Loss of fertility. The rules require comprehensive and long-term mental health counseling before proceeding with a gender change.
“Let me add that having looked at this and spent time listening to people's stories, it's clear that the most important part is the mental health counseling. It needs to be long and comprehensive. “I want to emphasize that.”
The rule would also require health care providers to report anonymized data on gender dysphoria cases and subsequent prescriptions and treatments.
On Dec. 29, DeWine broke with his party to protect children from dangerous and permanent transgender medical procedures and to allow male-born transgender athletes to play as women in women's and women's sports. He vetoed the bill that would have prohibited it.
Mr. DeWine has indicated that he accepts the left's hysterical claim that opposition to transgenderism causes transgender children to commit suicide. The governor said he made the decision to veto after talking with health care providers, saying, “I also listened to young people and parents. Without this treatment, my child would die.” My parents told me that.”
“The impact of this bill could not be more profound. The state of Ohio is saying that the state knows better than the two people who love the child most, the parents.” he said at the time.
HB 68 passed in the state House on a party-line vote of 64-28 and in the Senate on a 24-8 vote. Only one Republican crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats: Republican Sen. Nathan Manning. The Republican-led Congress has enough seats to override DeWine's veto, but it's unclear when or if that will happen, the Associated Press reported.
When reporters asked DeWine on Friday whether he hoped his executive order and proposed rules would avoid a veto, he sought to distance himself from the decision and said his efforts would not protect minors. He explained that this is another but necessary measure to protect parents at the same time. ' Children's ability to make medical decisions:
When I really started looking into this, these were obvious to me and some holes that needed to be filled. First, we need data. I need information. It has been applied to virtually everything else in the medical field. There is no data on this. There is no data on frequency or circumstances. It's time to get that information. So whatever Congress does, we're going to get this done. This is important.
“If there is an override, it will not affect our operations,” he added later in the press conference.
Mr. DeWine appears to be part of a group of Republicans who say parents have a right to provide so-called “gender-affirming care” to their children. For example, two Republican presidential candidates, Nikki Haley and Chris Christie, argued that outlawing sex-cutting drugs and procedures would take away parents' rights to make decisions about their children.
That sentiment is echoed in a recent decision in Idaho regarding a ban on sex-change drugs and surgeries for minors, where the judge wrote in an order that “parents make the most fundamental decisions about how to raise their children. There should be rights.” For their children. ”
