Kansas Governor Vetoes ‘Help Not Harm’ Bill – Child Advocates Call for Override
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly vetoed critical Help Not Harm legislation, a bill protecting children from the devastating effects of “transgender” medical treatments. Child advocates are calling on the legislature to override the veto.
In a statement calling the legislation “divisive,” she argued, “It is not the job of politicians to stand between a parent and a child who needs medical care of any kind.”
Giving children powerful and dangerous puberty blockers and hormones is not “medical care.” Performing mutilating surgeries on perfectly healthy bodies is not “medical care.”
The governor also stated, “Infringing on parental rights is not appropriate, nor is it a Kansas value.”
The Daily Citizen doubts that it is a “Kansas value” and knows it is not a “parental right” to deliberately harm children – or to allow medical professionals to do so.
Kansas Family Voice, a Focus on the Family-allied organization, explained that this was the third year in a row that the governor vetoed the act, and Director of Policy and Engagement Brittany Jones urged the Legislature to override the veto, “We call on both chambers of the Legislature to work together to override this veto quickly. Kansas children deserve better than harmful experimentation and life altering procedures.”
SB 63 was sent to the governor after it was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate, 32-8, and the House, 83-35.
The act prohibits medical professionals from using drugs, opposite-sex hormones and surgeries to treat children with sexual identity confusion. The measure also:
- Prevents state funds being used for such purposes.
- Prohibits liability insurance from “covering damages for healthcare providers that provide” these interventions.
- Labels these procedures “unprofessional conduct.”
- Requires “professional discipline against a healthcare provider who performs such treatments.”
Most of our country understands that gender ideology is false. We know there are two sexes, male and female. This is not just biological reality – it’s an important biblical and Christian truth.
We realize that body-damaging drugs, hormones, and surgeries cannot change a female into a male – or vice versa.
Most importantly, we care for children, and want them protected from the false “gender ideology” that sexualizes and confuses them. We want sexually-confused minors safeguarded from medical interventions that hold life-long, negative consequences.
Such procedures cause irreparable damage to children’s growing minds and bodies. As the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) explains, medical professionals are really performing gruesome experiments on thousands of children:
This pro-child organization stresses the psychological damage from stopping puberty, a normal developmental process, which is often the first step in the medicalization of sexually confused minors, “Puberty blockers may actually cause depression and other emotional disturbances related to suicide.”
ACPeds cites the harmful mental and physical effects of “Lupron, the number one prescribed puberty blocker in America”:
Genspect, an international group that promotes “a healthy, evidence-based approach to sex and gender,” links to numerous studies that show “adverse physical health outcomes” from the use of opposite sex hormones:
Most transgender surgeries are irreversible, and Genspect also notes that such attempts to make a body look like the opposite sex often have negative side effects:
It’s past time to protect children from these monstrous medical procedures. Kansas Family Voice encourages Kansans to contact their legislators and ask them to override the governor’s veto.
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Focus on the Family exists to help families, and that includes help navigating difficult issues like transgenderism. Focus offers a free, one-time counseling consultation with a licensed or pastoral counselor. To request a consultation, call 1-855-771-HELP (4357) or fill out our Counseling Consultation Request Form.
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