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Samantha

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Registered: 2023-05-06

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Louisiana Legislature overrides John Bel Edwards' veto of trans youth

https://www.nola.com/news/politics/legi … ce135.html

Louisiana Legislature overrides John Bel Edwards' veto of trans youth health care ban

    The Louisiana Legislature has overridden Gov. John Bel Edwards' veto of a ban on youth access to gender-affirming health care, aligning the state with a growing list of others that have curtailed medical treatment for transgender people.
    The Senate voted hours later to do the same, setting the bill in motion to become law.
    Opponents of the bill in the Senate were conceding Tuesday afternoon that the veto of the bill would be overridden.
    The upper chamber then voted 28-11 to override the measure.
    Two-thirds of both chambers need to support an override for it to be successful, which totals 70 members in the House and 26 in the Senate.