Ohio House Votes to Override Veto Banning Kids' Transgender Surgeries

The Ohio House of Representatives voted to override Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto on a bill banning children’s transgender surgeries. The House voted to overturn DeWine’s veto in a strictly party-line, 65-28 vote. Next, the bill will be sent to the Ohio Senate, which plans to vote on it on Jan. 24. Republicans also hold a 26-7 supermajority over Democrats in the Ohio Senate. The bill titled the Saving Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act would ban gender reassignment surgeries and hormonal treatments on children as well as enact the Save Women’s Sports Act, keeping individuals born as males from competing in women’s sports.