{"id":1962512,"date":"2023-07-01T22:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T02:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-gov-vetoes-bill-meant-to-shield-children-from-transgender-procedures\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T22:17:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T02:17:14","slug":"louisiana-gov-vetoes-bill-meant-to-shield-children-from-transgender-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-gov-vetoes-bill-meant-to-shield-children-from-transgender-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Governor rejects bill aimed at protecting children from transgender procedures."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flouisiana-gov-vetoes-bill-meant-to-shield-children-from-transgender-procedures%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1962512&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0702\/0bac75f1-28a4-4ceb-a568-e9d7e9459a6b\/audio.mp3?length=4428909&#038;duration=369\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Louisiana Governor Vetoes Bill Protecting Children from Gender-Change Surgeries<\/h2>\n<p>Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, has vetoed a bill aimed at safeguarding children from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-gov-vetoes-bill-meant-to-shield-children-from-transgender-procedures\/\" title=\"Louisiana Governor rejects bill aimed at protecting children from transgender procedures.\">transgender gender-change surgeries<\/a> and other procedures, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gender-affirmation-for-minors-is-child-abuse-not-treatment\/\" title=\"\u2018Gender Affirmation\u2019 For Minors Is Child Abuse, Not Treatment\">administering cross-sex hormones<\/a> to minors.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, known as the &#8220;Stop Harming Our Kids Act,&#8221; was passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature in early June. It sought to prohibit hormone treatments, puberty-blocking drugs, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-governor-vetoes-bill-limiting-transgender-surgeries-for-minors\/\" title=\"Arkansas Governor Vetoes Bill Limiting Transgender Surgeries for Minors\">gender reassignment surgeries<\/a> for minors. Critics argue that these procedures, like double mastectomies for girls identifying as boys, amount to mutilation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If HB 648 doesn&#8217;t become law, we will be sending a horrible message to our children,&#8221; expressed Louisiana State Senator Jeremy Stine, a Republican, on Twitter. &#8220;Our kids deserve to know that they are loved, valued, and perfect just as God created them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Despite hopes that Edwards would not veto the bill, he confirmed its rejection in a letter to the Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives. In the letter, Edwards argued that the bill threatens specialists&#8217; licenses, removes parental rights in healthcare decisions, and constitutes an assault on psychologically distressed children.<\/p>\n<h3>Opposition to the Bill<\/h3>\n<p>Edwards emphasized that there is no evidence of gender-change surgeries being performed in Louisiana and claimed that the bill addresses a non-existent problem while blocking necessary medical interventions for children with gender dysphoria. He acknowledged the need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-pushing-trans-surgery-ban-for-minors-black-democrats-much-more-conservative-than-white-democrats\/\" title=\"Democrat Pushing Trans Surgery Ban For Minors: Black Democrats \u2018Much More Conservative\u2019 Than White Democrats\">prohibit transgender surgeries<\/a> but criticized the bill&#8217;s lack of clarity and inclusion of provisions that overshadow the appropriate use of puberty blockers and hormone replacements.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Edwards pointed out several &#8220;structural defects&#8221; in the bill that made it &#8220;ripe for a veto,&#8221; including insufficient clarity on which medical interventions would be subject to penalties or license revocation.<\/p>\n<p>With the governor&#8217;s veto, the current regulations on transgender procedures for children in Louisiana remain unchanged.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, vetoed the &#8220;Stop Harming Our Kids Act,&#8221; a bill passed by the Republican-controlled state legislature. The bill aimed to safeguard children from transgender gender-change surgeries and cross-sex hormone treatments. Edwards&#8217; decision has sparked controversy and debate regarding the protection of children&#8217;s rights and medical procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":1962513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}