Arkansas Passes Ban On Child Sex Change Surgeries, Overrides Feckless Governor Asa Hutchinson's Veto

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Apr. 06, 2021

Arkansas on Tuesday made history by becoming the first state in America to ban child sex change surgeries and the experimental drugging of children with cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.

#BREAKING: The Arkansas Senate has voted to override Governor Asa Hutchinson’s veto of the SAFE Act, protecting children from experimental medical procedures, 25-8. The House voted to override the veto earlier today. HB1570 is now the law of the land in Arkansas.
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) April 6, 2021

The Arkansas Senate has voted by a large majority to override the veto of Gov. Hutchinson on HB1570, joining the House in ensuring Arkansas will not allow minor children to be subject to sex change surgeries. #arpx #arleg @RobinLundstrum @AlanClark4AR pic.twitter.com/Ql4WXkduss
— Jason Rapert (@jasonrapert) April 6, 2021

Feckless puppet Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson -- in what should be a career-ending move -- vetoed the bill on Monday and waxed poetic about the sacred right of social-climbing liberal parents to drug their children with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

Asa Hutchinson, the useless coward governor of Arkansas, vetoed a bill that would have banned the chemical castration of children. Somehow Noem got a lot more criticism from the right for her veto. She deserved the flack she got, but Hutchinson is significantly worse.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 6, 2021

This is a Republican affirming the idea that there might be a legitimate medical reason to chemically castrate a small boy. He is aligning himself with the most radical leftist position in existence.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 6, 2021

Hutchinson advocated for what amounts to total surrender in the culture war.

From Arkansas Today:

The governor referred to the bill as a "product of the cultural war in America" and said the measure is "overbroad, extreme and does not grandfather young people currently on hormone treatment."

If the bill were to become law, he said, the state would be creating "new standards of legislative interference with physicians and parents as they deal with some of the most complex and sensitive matters involving young people."

Hutchinson added the bill would leave those people without care, and may lead them to look to the black market or go out of state to get the care they need.

Hutchinson's veto can be overridden with a simple majority in both chambers. Anticipating the general assembly will do so, he encouraged the body to come up with a more restrained approach to the bill, he said.

"We want to send a message of tolerance and diversity," Hutchinson said.

"Adults make decisions for our children through the law already," Arkansas State Senator Jason Rapert said in response to Hutchinson's veto. "We prevent minors from drinking alcohol, owning a gun, etc. Why shouldn't we protect them from irreversible surgeries that could sterilize them?"

Hutchinson held a press conference after his veto was overridden and refused to address the topic.

Instead, he started rambling about how he's opposed to the state mandating vaccine passports but he's all for businesses mandating vaccine passports with the backing of the state, as though there's any difference.

The media is uniformly referring to the law as a ban on "gender confirming treatments."

"Gender confirming treatment" is an absurd and perverse euphemism for the chemical castration of young boys. Zeke is pretending to be a journalist while using the language of the far left.

Anyway, god bless Arkansas lawmakers. They have the courage their governor sorely lacks. https://t.co/EhUWahdimJ
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) April 6, 2021

CNN's Devan Dole, who last week wrote an article stating that "it's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth, and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth," dropped this gem:

At the same time Hutchinson was vetoing this bill, he was throwing his support behind a new "hate crime" bill pushed by the Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce.

"[Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Randy Zook] said Arkansas' distinction of being one of three states in the country without a hate-crimes law made it harder for businesses to recruit people to work here," Arkansas Online reported.

Are Republicans finally getting "woke" to the fact that woke capital is their enemy? I sure hope so.

Kudos to the Arkansas house and senate for fighting back and standing up for the American people and innocent children against our mentally disturbed ruling oligarchs.

Next, they should throw that hate crime bill in the trash and move to censure their pathetic governor!

[Header image by Adam Bartlett via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0]

Follow InformationLiberation on Twitter, Facebook, Gab, Minds, Parler and Telegram.