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Ohio has banned gender-affirming care for minors and restricted transgender women’s and girls’ participation on sports teams, a move that has families of transgender children scrambling over how best to care for them.

The Republican-dominated Senate voted Wednesday to override GOP Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto. The new law bans gender-affirming surgeries and hormone therapies, and restricts mental health care for transgender individuals under 18. The measure also bans transgender girls and women from girls and women’s sports teams at both the K-12 and collegiate level.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (13 children)

“But the GOP might use it against us!” say Dems while the GOP actively uses it against the Dems making any kind of positive change.

Historically, just for example, Biden has voted against LGBTQ rights. he flipped in 2019- supposedly- because of his presidential campaign. In the Senate, he consistently voted against gay marriage. Why any one things the nominal leader of the DNC would suddenly start caring about trans rights when he never cared about gay rights.... is quite beyond me.

Same goes for Abortion.

Same goes for Climate change.

same goes for basically anything that is a progressive concern of the 40 year old "young voters"

[–] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Didn't Biden change his position on gay marriage during the Obama administration? I'm totally fine if someone wants to change their position for the better. That shouldn't be something we look down on.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna47311900

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He might give lip service; and I may be a bit off on the timing, but as late as the mid-90's, he was voting against gay marriage.

The point I'm trying to make though, is that there were tools to win and they're not talking them. Filibuster. Packing the supreme court. and it's not just LGBTQ issues that are on the chopping block here... it's, basically, everything. We're facing a constitutional crisis because Biden refused to act... because he's not got with the times and is still playing 'good ol boy' horsetrading politics against a team that's determined to lie, cheat, and steal for every last scrap of power.

[–] BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The mid 90's was thirty years ago. That's plenty of time to have a change of heart.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

yeah, I recognize that. Abortion was in 2019, though. But I doubt very much he has had a change of heart, so much as, simply being, you know, a politician whose got somebody explaining where things are. Did you believe him when he said he had 'the epiphany' as a senior in highschool?

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