{"id":10790,"date":"2024-01-04T20:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2024-01-04T20:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:04:06","slug":"veto-of-anti-trans-bill-supports-children-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/04\/veto-of-anti-trans-bill-supports-children-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Veto of Anti-Trans Bill Supports Children, Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10507\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10507\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/State-Rep.-Michele-Grim-197x250.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Rep. Michele Grim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>State Rep. Michele Grim (D-Toledo) last week called Governor Mike DeWine&#8217;s decision to veto the discriminatory House Bill (HB) 68 a much needed sign of support for Ohio&#8217;s LGBTQ+ children and the community overall, as well as parental rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state shouldn&#8217;t be making medical decisions for our families. I appreciate that Governor DeWine listened to the expertise of the medical community and the lived experiences of Ohio families and did the right things in vetoing HB 68,&#8221; said Rep. Grim.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats called on Gov. DeWine to veto the legislation saying, &#8220;Hate, as you yourself have said, has no place in this state,&#8221; in a Dec. 16 letter to the governor. The draconian HB 68 was a horrible solution to a problem that does not exist. The veto once again proves that all Ohioans have the right to keep their individual medical choices between them and their doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Michele Grim (D-Toledo) last week called Governor Mike DeWine&#8217;s decision to veto the discriminatory House Bill (HB) 68 a much needed sign of support for Ohio&#8217;s LGBTQ+ children and the community overall, as well as parental rights. &#8220;The state shouldn&#8217;t be making medical decisions for our families. I appreciate that Governor DeWine listened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[210],"class_list":["post-10790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10791,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions\/10791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}