A bill that would prevent trans athletes from participating in Ohio women’s sports was woven into a bill that would limit health care for LGBTQ+ youth, and passed the Ohio House Public Health Policy Committee — all in the same meeting.
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“Please trust young people when they tell us who they are. Stop meddling in people’s most private health care decisions, and let trans kids have the opportunity to be themselves. Leave trans kids alone,” said Mallory Golski, the civic engagement and advocacy manager for Kaleidoscope Youth Center. State Rep. Beth Liston, D-Dublin, spoke against the substitute bill during Wednesday’s committee meeting.
Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, reintroduced HB 68 earlier this year after a previous bill that would prohibit doctors from doing sex reassignment surgery on minors failed to pass last year. He has said his bill doesn’t have religious motivations, but he can be heard defending conversion therapy and suggesting that homosexuality and someone being transgender are pushed by Satan during a sermonhe gave four years ago at the Fremont Baptist Church, where he is a pastor.
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