The Louisiana House of Representatives and the state Senate on Tuesday overrode Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of a bill that makes offering so-called gender-affirming care to minors illegal.
The law will put an end to the disturbing practice of surgeries and hormone therapies for minors experiencing gender dysphoria who think they can change their sex.
The law will bar those under 18 in Louisiana from receiving gender-affirming surgeries, puberty blocking medications and hormone treatments, and punishes health care professionals that provide them with the revocation of their license for a minimum of two years.
Doctors who began providing such drug or hormone therapy to a minor before January 1, 2024, are allowed to continue providing care through December 1, 2024, if they determine that "Immediately terminating the minor's use of the drug or hormone would cause harm to the minor."
We have also had profound disagreements.... Today, I was overridden for the second time, on my veto of a bill that needlessly harms a very small population of vulnerable children, their families, and their health care professionals.
Secondly, his contention that the bill "Needlessly harms a very small population of vulnerable children" is bananas.
Not only does this bill not harm minors, but it protects them.
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