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Arkansas Republicans Override Governor’s Veto of Bill Banning Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth

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Republicans in the Arkansas legislature wasted no time on Tuesday, overriding Governor Asa Hutchinson’s veto of a bill that will now ban medical treatment for transgender youth and teens.

On Monday, after signing two anti-LGBTQ bills into law in recent weeks, the Arkansas Republican governor vetoed HB 1570, calling it “off-course,” and not “necessary and defensible.” Less than 24 hours later Republicans overrode the veto, the AP reports.

A simple majority is all that was required. The ACLU, which has called the bill “one of the most extreme and harmful anti-trans bills in the country,”  immediately promised to sue.

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