The Ohio House of Representatives has voted to override Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill that would ban sex-change surgeries for minors, with the state Senate still needing to vote the same for it to become law.
The Republican-controlled lower house voted on Wednesday to override DeWine’s vetoofSubstitute House Bill 68, which included the Save Women’s Sports Act and the Saving Adolescents From Experimentation Act.
In addition to banning cosmetic sex-change surgeries for minors and the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to kids, HB 68 would also prohibit males who identify as female from competing in female athletics.
With the Ohio General Assembly controlled by a Republican supermajority, a veto override requires a three-fifths majority vote in both houses.