He's criticized the bill for weeks.
Today, Governor Andy Beshear vetoed Senate Bill 150, the bill that bans gender transitioning medical care for trans youth.
It also allows teachers to use a student's gender pronoun at birth, even if that means ignoring the student's wishes.
And it banned schools from providing instruction on sexual orientation.
The governor put out a statement about the veto, which echoed many of the things he said during his news conference yesterday.
I believe Senate Bill 150 takes away the freedom of parents to make important and difficult medical decisions for their kids.
It tears away the freedom of parents to do what those parents believe is best for their kids and instead has big government making those decisions for everyone, even if the parents disagree.
The other thing I believe is that, sadly, it's going to cause an increase in teen suicide here in Kentucky.
You look at the American Medical Association, the The Trevor Project, and all the data is very clear.
Now, we should be in the business of preventing teen suicides and never contributing to it.
The Family Foundation is criticizing Governor Beshear for the veto.
Executive Director David Walls put out a statement saying S.B.
150 will save the lives of Kentucky children by setting policy in alignment with the truth that every child is created as a biological male or female, and deserves to be loved, treated with dignity and accepted for who they really are.
We look forward to the General Assembly overriding Bashir's shameful veto so that the Commonwealth's children and their dignity can be protected.
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Here's reaction from State Senator Max Wise, a Republican from Campbellsville, a candidate for governor and the sponsor of SB 150.
Parents should look at this veto as a slap in the face.
It's clear Governor Beshear cares more about woke ideologues and D.C. bureaucrats than parents and students here in Kentucky.
I look forward to the legislature overriding this veto and protecting children from the irreparable harm of gender transition surgeries by making SB 150 law.
The Fairness Campaign put out a statement in support of the governor's veto.
It says SB 150 will only lead to disaster and despair for transgender Kentucky kids and their families.
That's why thousands of Kentuckians sent messages opposing SB 150 and countless Kentucky doctors showed up in Frankfort to testify against it.
We urge state lawmakers to read the governor's veto message, listen to medical professionals and sustain Governor Bashir's veto.
Opponents of Senate Bill 150 are taking their message to the streets.
Progress Kentucky and other allies of LGBTQ plus community organized what they call a caravan of compassion, a process, a procession of cars to show support for transgender Kentuckians in opposition to SB 150.
There were two stops in Lexington and one in Berea.
The group is urging Republican lawmakers to vote against overturning today's veto by Governor Beshear.
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