One America News Network OAN’s Brooke Mallory
On Wednesday, the Ohio Senate overrode Republican Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that would have prohibited biological men and boys who identify as transgender women and girls from participating on female school sports teams. It also prohibited “gender-affirming medical treatments” for minors.
The vote was 23-to-9. Now, the measure will take effect in 90 days.
After the state House voted to overrule the veto transpired earlier this month, Ohio has now joined almost two dozen other GOP-led states that have adopted laws of a similar nature.
However, during public hearings last year, hundreds of opponents, including the president of Ohio’s Children’s Hospital Association, spoke against House Law 68. LGBTQ groups, medical professionals, and families of transgender children have generally denounced the law.
GOP Senator Nathan Manning (R-Ohio) from North Ridgeville, Ohio, was the only member of the GOP to vote against the override, with twenty-four Republicans supporting it.
“Despite what the liberals say, gender is not assigned at birth, but rather from the moment of conception, you are either male or you are female,” Senator Kristina Roegner (R-Ohio). “There is no such thing as gender-affirming care. You can’t affirm something that doesn’t exist.”
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