Legislation protecting children from transgender experimentation serves as a litmus test for Republicans on the left’s LGBT insanity — and Ohio’s Republican Gov. Mike DeWine just failed it.
On paper, Ohio appears to be one of the most Republican states in the nation. Not even states controlled by a Republican trifecta and triplex, however, are safe from succumbing to the left’s transgender agenda, thanks to so-called conservative politicians’ acceptance of their dishonest talking points as gospel truth.
Most Ohioans and most Americans say kids with gender dysphoria should not be chemically castrated or surgically mutilated and cross-dressing men should not be able to invade women’s sports teams. But DeWine rejected his constituents’ clear convictions by vetoing Republican legislators’ “Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act,” which would have outlawed both.
A three-fifths majority vote from the Republican-controlled Ohio General Assembly will easily override DeWine’s veto. But that doesn’t erase the governor’s culpability for advancing leftist lies.
DeWine acknowledged that the bill would only affect “a very small number of Ohio’s children” but justified his decision by claiming “this is about protecting human life.”
“Many parents have told me that their child would not have survived, would be dead today if they had not received the treatment they received from one of Ohio’s children’s hospitals. I’ve also been told by those who are now grown adults that but for this care, they would have taken their lives when they were teenagers,” DeWine claimed.
That line alone shows the governor bought
