Arkansas’ governor on Monday vetoed a bill that would have made the state the first to ban gender-affirming medical care, including surgery, for transgender minors, even with parental consent.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, called the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act, or SAFE Act, “a vast government overreach.”
He told reporters that it would set “new standards of legislative interference with physicians and parents as they deal with some of the most complex and sensitive matters involving young people.”
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