Trans Youth Prohibition on veto Kansas Veto again – Rural Radio Network

(Topeka, Kan.)-Kansas Governor Laura Kelly veto the Senate was 63, which would limit the care that confirm the gender for transgender young people.

“Currently, the legislature should be focused on ways to help Kanzanns deal with rising prices,” Kelly said in a statement sent by email late Tuesday. “This is the most important question about Kanzanas. That’s where my focus is. “

The bill will prevent healthcare providers from administering medical assistance confirming gender-influencing puberty and hormonal therapies-for someone under the age of 18, only for gender transition purposes. The prohibition will also apply to the sex, confirming operations.

“Parental violation is not appropriate, nor is it a value of Kansas,” Kelly says in her veto message. “As I said before, it is not the job of politicians to stand between a parent and a child who needs medical care of all kinds. This legislation will also bring out families, business and health workers from our country, suffocating our economy and sharpen the problem of labor shortages. “

This is the third time Kelly has vetoed such youth care accounts, but the bill may have the support to pass.

The bill adopted the state legislative body with flying colors-transmitting the house 83-35 and the Senate 32-8.

In 2023, the attempt to cancel a veto for a past trans-ranked veto lost in the house 82-43.

The state Republicans quickly condemned Kelly’s veto.

“The governor’s devotion to the extreme summer ideology does not know the boundaries, necessitating the imposition of a two -party bill that prevents the crippling of minors,” says State Senator Tai Masterson in an online statement. “The Senate is firmly on the side of the protection of Kansas’s children and will quickly cancel its veto before the ink from her pen is dry.”

Higher National Medical Associations such as the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Children and Youth Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics and more than 20 others claim that sexuality care is safe, effective, useful and medically necessary for transsexual populations.

Kelly joins the governors past and present in Ohio and Arkansas in the veto bills aimed at youth gender care. However, both of them were canceled.

Throughout the country, youth care restrictions face legitimate obstacles in their implementation.

The battle and the debate have recently been brought to the national scene, with the Supreme Court considering the US against Skrmetti, which will decide whether the Tennessee law prohibits any gender care for transgender minors, violates the US Constitution clause.

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