Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) announced that he had vetoed a bill on Monday that would have blocked minors from receiving gender-reassignment surgeries and hormone treatments, calling the proposal “vast government overreach.”
The legislation, which passed 28-7 last week, would have prevented doctors from prescribing hormones and puberty blockers to, or from performing reassignment surgery on, minors as a treatment for gender dysphoria, a condition characterized by significant “psychological distress that results from incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity,” according to the American Psychiatric Association.
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