Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a birth certificate update ban as well as two DEI bans that explicitly included transgender people.

Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a birth certificate update ban as well as two DEI bans that explicitly included transgender people.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed three anti-transgender bills that had cleared the state’s Republican-controlled legislature.

One of the measures would have prohibited transgender individuals from updating the gender marker on their birth certificates—a process already mired in legal and bureaucratic hurdles due to existing law.

The other two bills targeted trans people in higher education and workplaces, continuing a broader pattern of attempts to restrict their rights in public life.

Hobbs, who has positioned herself as a consistent and vocal opponent of the anti-transgender agenda pushed by the right, has repeatedly used her veto authority to block similar efforts throughout her time in office.

  • mrwrinkles@lemm.eeEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    Thank heavens she won governor or AZ would be deeeep red. Someone told me all these Republican bills she’s vetoing are performative, and they know she’ll veto. Just to scare people.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      37·
      2 days ago

      I’m almost curious to know what kind of world these people live in where the issue comes up so often they feel the need to pass legislation. Can’t they leave people alone?

      • Stupidmanager@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        2 days ago

        So far I’ve heard from a few, including my mother, that it’s unnatural in gods eyes and needs stopped. No idea why this god is sitting on their ass, doing nothing. But hey, I’m an atheist and think this is the final death throes of a dying culture of hate.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Hmm let’s check the Bible for passages on transgender. Oh look, there is none really and certainly nothing about keeping them out of bathrooms.

          This is the real problem with religion. They just pretend anything they dream up is suddenly part of their holy tenants. This is absolutely false.

          We have to stop taking their word and force them to prove it. You think gays don’t have the right to marriage? Gather a diverse panel of biblical scholars and prove it by citing their holy scriptures. If they can’t come up with a consesus, just shut the fuck up and go home.

        • Reyali@lemm.ee
          16·
          2 days ago

          Or how God supposedly created all people in his image, but wait, no, not those people 🙄

        • kautau@lemmy.world
          8·
          2 days ago

          Yeah the point is to continue to keep the dumb people fearing “the enemy” like ms-13 and trans people while the government is dismantled. As another commenter said, it’s all performative.