Bill to overturn Gov. Beshear's ban on conversion therapy headed to his desk
A new Kentucky bill could strike down Gov. Beshear's executive order banning conversion therapy.
But, it's not the only controversial measure sitting on his desk during this veto period.
Lawmakers late Friday sent two controversial bills, in the final hour of the concurrence period of this year바카라 게임 웹사이트s legislative session, to Beshear's desk for consideration in the veto period.
House Bill 495 and Senate Bill 2 brought debate and emotion to the House floor as both measures directly affect the LGBTQ+ community.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Doesn't matter about the gender stuff or your culture wars,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Rep. Adam Moore (D) of Lexington. 바카라 게임 웹사이트You're going to come in this chamber telling 45,000 people to vote for you because I care about small government and individual liberty, and now you're going to tell people they can바카라 게임 웹사이트t have their damn medication because you disagree with it.바카라 게임 웹사이트
HB 495 sought to overturn Gov. Beshear바카라 게임 웹사이트s executive order banning conversion therapy, a controversial practice used to convert LGBTQ+ youth to traditional gender expectations.
But, a last-minute amendment by a Senate subcommittee now prohibits Medicaid from funding hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery. Similarly, SB 2 also ensures no taxpayer dollars will be spent on gender-affirming care for inmates.
바카라 게임 웹사이트Which denies, mind you, only 67 transgender Kentuckians who are housed in the Department of Corrections from their health care,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Chris Hartman, executive director of the Fairness Campaign.
Hartman is outraged that lawmakers would carry out eleventh hour sneak attacks, he believes, on vulnerable Kentuckians.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I take quite a bit of umbrage to this disrespectful, subversive, sneaky way to go about attacking our community. Do it out in the open if you're going to do it, and let people have the right to speak up and speak for themselves,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Hartman.
He also worries about the impacts they could face from these laws including increased risks of self-harm and health effects from stopping hormone treatment.
Conservative groups, the Family Foundation, support the bills.
바카라 게임 웹사이트We're thankful that the General Assembly has taken these important first steps to push back against Governor Beshear바카라 게임 웹사이트s incredibly radical overreach, both in terms of his unlawful executive order that sought to shut down certain forms of counseling, particularly counseling that might come from a Christian perspective, on human sexuality issues,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said executive director David Walls.
Walls has strong beliefs in not wasting taxpayer dollars and protecting conversion therapy.
While applauding the passage, he expects the governor's next steps to not be in their favor.
바카라 게임 웹사이트I suspect he will dig in his heels, as he likes to do, and probably veto these, forcing the legislature to have to consider overriding his veto on the last two days of the session,바카라 게임 웹사이트 said Walls.
In addition to these controversial bills, Beshear is also considering measures that ban public universities diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and a clarification to Kentucky바카라 게임 웹사이트s near-total abortion ban.
The veto period ends on March 26.
Lawmakers will gavel back in for the final two days of the legislative session on March 27.