CV NEWS FEED // Kentucky’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed legislation March 14 that protects access to conversion therapy for LGBT-identifying minors and bans Medicaid from funding “transgender” procedures.
The Lexington Herald Leader reported that House Bill 495 overturns a previous order from Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, who had restricted conversion therapy by banning the use of tax dollars to pay for it.
The bill passed 67-19 roughly an hour before the House’s session ended at midnight, meaning that the Republican-controlled legislature is allowed to override any vetoes from Beshear once it reconvenes in late March, the Lexington Herald Leader added.
According to AP News, the state Senate previously passed a version of the bill that banned the use of Medicaid to pay for “transgender” procedures. The outlet also added that both chambers passed the legislation with “veto-proof margins.”
In addition to passing HB 495, the House also passed Senate Bill 2, which prevents “transgender” procedures from being performed in state prisons.
Beshear has publicly opposed HB 495 on X.
“In Medicaid, we allow medical experts to determine what is medically necessary,” he stated during a March 13 press conference. “We don’t determine someone’s health care based on the politics of the day.”
David Walls, executive director of The Family Foundation, a Kentucky Christian public policy organization in Kentucky, called the passage of the two bills a “positive development” but emphasized that “there is much more that needs to be done.”
“We continue to believe that no taxpayer dollars should pay for any gender mutilation of any person anywhere in this Commonwealth,” he stated in a news release. “To use taxpayer funds for such purposes is not only poor stewardship but encourages individuals to undergo irreparable harm to their person. It’s not possible to change a person’s sex, and government has no place in promoting or subsidizing such madness.”
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