Republicans in Kansas “stand ready” to override their governor after she vetoed legislation that would have prohibited taxpayer-funded transgender experimentation on children and given those harmed by the radical practice a civil cause for action.
After the bill passed the Republican-controlled state House and Senate with flying colors, Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly shot it down on Friday, wrongly claiming the legislation “tramples parental rights.”
“This divisive legislation targets a small group of Kansans by placing government mandates on them and dictating to parents how to best raise and care for their children,” Kelly said in a statement. “I do not believe that is a conservative value, and it’s certainly not a Kansas value.”
Kelly claimed the mutilative and sterilizing procedures, which often cause harrowing, life-threatening consequences to minors, amount to “medical care” that shouldn’t be subject to interference from the state. Yet the growing number of children who undergo social or physical “transitions,” such as adopting false pronouns, cutting off their healthy breasts or genitalia, or taking sterilizing drugs, suffer irreversible damage to their bodies and minds.
An independent review published in the United Kingdom last week found “no good evidence” to support transgender medical interventions for children. One of its biggest bombshell admissions was that many kids struggling with the realities of their sex grow out of that mental conflict.
The same day Kelly vetoed protections for transgender-identifying minors, she also vetoed a bill that would deregulate sugaring, “a hair removal technique that may be performed on minors,” on the grounds that
