Ohio Republicans Become Big Government Nannies On Trans Rights! 🏳️‍⚧️

Republicans are the party of big government.

Republicans dust off the old culture war playbook.

Just like ignoring a fair election, Republicans continue to threaten democracy with their refusal to accept defeat and their intentions to defy constitutional rights.

President Joe Biden is right, Republicans want to strip away rights and impose assinanine rules to our country.

The far right Republican and several Democratic lawmakers continue to dehumanize humans. They claim legitimate concerns about Biden and Donald J. Trump are just noise.

The call upon change to the status quo. Republicans continue to invest and promote ideas that are stuck on 20th Century propaganda. Most of the lawmakers who complain about the U.S.-Mexican border do not live there. Most of the lawmakers who want to ban transgender rights are probably closeted gays or trans themselves and they're just denying it. Most of these so called religious extremists are the ones found molesting children, sleeping with prostitutes and using drugs.

They use our taxpayer money to showboat.

Building a border wall is just a monument to white supremacy.

Banning rights will not stop transgender Americans from getting the necessary treatment and means of survival.

Biden may have turned off voters with his hardline stance on Israel, but he ain't trying to strip Americans their right to protest.

Israel has similar ways of dehumanizing human beings and defying law and order. 

The former swimmer and far right bigot Riley Gaines had a part in Ohio's controversial bill banning transgender youth and adults from playing gender assigned sports, gender assigned restrooms and surgery.

Republicans want to be your nannies.

Ohio legislators could focus on fixing roads, highways, bridges, railroads and waterways.

They could pass a gun reform law to stop gun violence in the state. But alas, they rather focus on Ohioans who want to live their identified gender. Impose discrimination and transphobia to win over the religious extremists.

And you wonder why Ohio lost population and a crucial congressional district?

I am serious, why are conservatives obsessed with gay and transgender people?

Why are conservatives obsessed with sex?

Are they scared they might like a person who identifies as transgender?

Are they in a sexless relationship at home?

There's not enough sex in the champagne room?

Matter of fact, they probably have a family member or friend who identifies as LGBTQ.

So why can't they mind their goddamn business?

Ohio Republicans passed a bill that banned transgender girls and women from playing sports, sex changing and banning gender affirming care for children under 18.

Taking away a life or death decision which is a freedom of itself because you want to impose religious freedom.

Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed the bill, but thanks to gerrymandering and Republicans holding a majority in the Ohio statehouse, they overridden his veto.

The Ohio Senate voted 23-9 Wednesday to override Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of legislation banning gender-affirming health care for minors and preventing transgender women and girls from competing on female school sports teams.

Ohio now joins nearly two dozen other GOP-led states that have adopted similar laws after the state House also voted earlier this month to overturn the veto.

Ohio Republicans could save lives by passing gun reform. Yet, they're playing on the fears of a transkid or transwoman.

LGBTQ advocates, medical professionals and families of transgender children have largely condemned the bill, and hundreds of opponents — including the president of Ohio’s Children’s Hospital Association — testified against House Bill 68 during public hearings last year. A similar bill filed last session by Ohio House Republicans died in committee after nearly 300 witnesses submitted opponent testimony.

DeWine vetoed House Bill 68 on Dec. 29, telling reporters at a press conference that such a measure, if allowed to become law, would do more harm than good.

“Ultimately, I believe this is about protecting human life,” he said. “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.”

The measure now goes into effect in 90 days.

DeWine has so far declined to say whether he supports the bill’s restrictions on transgender student-athletes. In a 2021 statement, he said he believes the issue is “best addressed outside of government.”

Gender-affirming health care for transgender minors and adults is considered medically necessary by every major medical organization, though not every trans person chooses to medically transition or has access to care.

DeWine is only the second Republican governor to veto legislation banning gender-affirming care; the first was former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), a former presidential candidate.

Including DeWine, only three Republican governors have vetoed bills barring transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams consistent with their gender identity.

Beyond the Legislature, access to gender-affirming health care for transgender minors and adults in Ohio is set to be heavily restricted under proposed administrative rules filed earlier this month by the state Health Department. 

The proposed regulations have drawn criticism from LGBTQ rights groups and medical professionals, who say the rules would make Ohio one of the most restrictive states in the nation with respect to gender-affirming care. In a joint statement, The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Ohio said the rules could amount to a “de facto ban” on care.

An executive order signed Jan. 5 by DeWine prohibits transition-related surgeries for minors, which health care providers in the state have said are already not performed on those younger than 18.

DeWine during his Dec. 29 press conference said the notion that such surgeries are being performed on minors in Ohio is “frankly, a fallacy.”