LA Legislature Fails to Override 24 of Governor Edwards' 25 Vetoes
Only Gabe Firment's HB 648 endured
Representative Gabe Firment understands that if the Louisiana legislature had not banned gender mutilation of minors, then our state would have become an “oasis” in the South for that type of “care.” Supporters of gender mutilation will say, “It’s such a small group of children,” but we all know the numbers would have swelled if Edwards’ veto had remained.
While we celebrate the override of this veto, the legislature failed on 24 others. We cannot avoid feeling disappointed.
We do find it funny and disconcerting that commentary from the state’s single most popular Democrat politician included this:
It’s our understanding that only one veto was overridden today, but we wouldn’t dare to correct the state’s most able human being.
Clearly, however, someone has things brutally backwards:
“Doom to you who call evil good and good evil”
Now that you’re feeling “doomed” and “centered” on “hate and harm” we will quote the Times-Picayune, the Left-leaning publication that far too many people continue to read:
After a day of high drama and emotional outbursts from spectators, the Legislature struck down Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of a ban on youth access to gender-affirming health care, aligning Louisiana with a growing list of states that have restricted medical treatment for transgender people.
But Republicans also failed to overturn Edwards on 24 other vetoes, mustering overrides on two other bills in the House that then fell short of the two-thirds majority needed in the Senate. The special veto override session — the third of its kind in Louisiana’s history — ended after one day with just a single veto overridden.
Among the measures that Edwards prevailed in blocking were two more Republican attempts to target LGBTQ+ youth. One would have prevented transgender students from using alternate pronouns, and the other would have prohibited discussion of gender and sexuality in schools.
The vote means that youth experiencing gender dysphoria will have less than six months to legally obtain treatment for their condition, as the ban, when effective in January, will bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, gender-transition surgeries or hormone treatment to children and teens. Doctors may still offer counseling to those youth, under the law.
We know this fellow is disappointed in today’s news:
And surely Fred Mills is disappointed, too:
You’ll remember that Mills voted with Democrats to kill the bill, but House Republicans resuscitated the bill despite Fred Mills’ efforts.
Read HB 648 here.