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Arkansas Lawmakers Overturn Governor's Veto of Bill Banning Gender-Affirming Healthcare to Minors

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State Rep. Robin Lundstrum, R-Elm Springs, defends her bill to ban transgender medical care to Arkansas minors a final time before the House on Tuesday.

By a simple majority, Republican members of the Arkansas House and Senate voted Tuesday to overturn a veto issued the previous day by Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson of a bill banning gender-affirming medical carefor trans youth. The governor said the law is extreme and places children at risk. Arkansas is now the first state in the nation to enact such a ban.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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