On Friday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed a bill protecting children from the transgender industry, as well as banning males from participating in girls’ and women's sports. It easily passed the legislature, and it should have been a no-brainer for DeWine to sign.
Why didn’t he? According to DeWine, he believes his veto was "about protecting human life."
"Many parents have told me that their child would be dead today if they had not received the treatment they received from an Ohio children’s hospital,” he claimed. "I have also been told by those that are now grown adults, that but for this care, they would have taken their lives when they were teenagers."
DeWine continued, "What so many of these young people and their families have also told me is that nothing they have faced in life could ever prepare them for this extremely tough journey. Parents are making decisions about the most precious thing in their life, their child, and none of us should underestimate the gravity and the difficulty of those decisions. Were I to sign Substitute House Bill 68 or were Substitute House Bill 68 to become law, Ohio would be saying that the State, that the government, knows what is best medically for a child rather than the two people who love that child the most, the parents."
We’ve all heard the stories and the talking points. Parents of young children who wake up one day and say they’re the opposite gender are told that if they don’t support this, they are bad parents. They are told by doctors something like, "Would you rather have a living son or a dead daughter?”
This is not medical advice; it's emotional blackmail by medical professionals who stand to make a lot of money from transgender procedures. There is no medical justification for them, and it’s unconscionable that DeWine didn’t do his research.
Last year, a comprehensive study also found that there is no medical benefit for young people to receive so-called “gender-affirming care,” and that 90% of young people with gender confusion who are not encouraged to transition (socially or medically) will no longer identify as transgender upon reaching adulthood.
There’s also no legitimate link between so-called “gender-affirming care” and better mental health outcomes, and European countries that were originally all in on the transgender fad have started figuring this out. In July of last year, England’s only transgender clinic closed due to concerns that doctors were performing surgeries without considering children’s mental health. Several other European countries, including Sweden, Finland, and France, have all dialed back on pushing transgender “treatments” for children because they have begun to recognize the harm it does to kids. Are you not paying attention, Governor DeWine?
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What’s happening to young children these days with the full consent of their parents and the willing participation of the medical industry is just appalling. In the past ten years, the whole transgender craze has just exploded. It seemed like almost overnight, gender identity disorders went from being a rare mental health condition limited to middle-aged men into a national fad affecting men and women of all ages and, even more disturbingly, children.
And we’re supposed to accept it, not question it?
Can Governor DeWine really claim to have not noticed that this is a relatively new phenomenon or realized that it’s clearly not natural? In fact, there is significant evidence that transgender identification is a social contagion.
Children should not be subjected to dangerous drugs and have their bodies and genitals mutilated just because they’ve been convinced by a social contagion that they were born in the wrong body. We need strong leaders to stand up to the transgender cult rather than cave to their emotional blackmail.
Clearly, Governor DeWine is not a strong leader.
