On the next-to-last day of this year's legislative session, Kentucky lawmakers overrode the governor's veto of a bill that would regulate some of the most private aspects of life for young transgender people.
The protesters, their hands bound, chanted “there’s more of us not here” as they waited to be taken away from the Capitol.
The bill’s opponents framed the issue as a civil-rights fight. Democratic Rep. Sarah Stalker said: “Kentucky will be on the wrong side of history” by enacting the measure. In praising the veto override, David Walls, executive director of The Family Foundation, said the bill puts “policy in alignment with the truth that every child is created as a male or female and deserves to be loved, treated with dignity and accepted for who they really are.”
“If it passes, the restricted access to gender-affirming health care, I think trans kids will die because of that,” the 17-year-old student said, expressing a persistent concern among the bill’s critics that the restrictions could lead to an increase in teen suicides. Transgender medical treatments have long been available in the United States and are endorsed by major medical associations.for minors. It will outlaw gender reassignment surgery for anyone under 18, as well as the use of puberty blockers and hormones, and inpatient and outpatient gender-affirming hospital services.
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