KY House votes on trans youth gender-affirming care ban. How did your rep. vote?
In a last-minute switch on Thursday, Republicans revived an omnibus anti-LGBTQ bill, which includes a ban on gender-affirming health care for Kentucky’s transgender youth.
With Thursday being the last day before the veto recess, lawmakers were in a hurry to pass legislation concerning trans health care before midnight.
The House of Representatives ultimately passed Senate Bill 150 on Thursday afternoon, 75 to 22.
On Wednesday night, Senate Republicans voted to dramatically scale back House Bill 470, a bill that many in the party said went too far because it left trans kids with no health care options, but ultimately paused the discussion before taking a vote to advance the bill.
The next morning, Sen. Max Wise, R-Campbellsville, and Rep. David Meade, R-Stanford, introduced an amended version of Senate Bill 150 that would do just that.
The House Education Committee rushed through a committee substitute for Senate Bill 150 in a meeting called with just minutes’ notice. It passed the committee with one Republican voting no alongside the Democrats, and the bill was on the House floor roughly 40 minutes later.
Here’s how the full House of Representatives voted on Senate Bill 150.
This story was originally published March 16, 2023 at 4:27 PM.
