Many Ohio Republicans have attacked the state’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, over his veto on Friday of a bill that would have banned transgender medical procedures for minors in the state.
DeWine on Friday announced that he vetoed Substitute House Bill 68, known as the Ohio Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, which was passed by the Ohio General Assembly on Dec. 13 and would have banned doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors, as well as performing surgeries to change their sexual physiology, according to the text of the bill.
“HB68 is the easiest bill for a RepublIcan Governor to sign. DeWine is not a Republican,” former Republican Rep. Jim Renacci of Ohio, who ran against DeWine in the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary in 2022, tweeted in response to the decision. “But Ohio allows Democrats to vote in the Republican primary. Which is how DeWine was nominated.”
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