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Asa Hutchinson
46th Governor of Arkansas
GOP Presidential Candidate
Former U.S. Representative from Arkansas
- Updated: October 31, 2023
—Signed Senate Bill 354, an anti-transgender bill that bans transgender women and girls from participating in sports (including extracurricular and school sports at the elementary, middle, high school and collegiate level) consistent with their gender identity.
—Said the state legislature has gone a “step way too far,” when it voted to override his veto on a bill banning treatments for transgender minors. He said the new law will have devastating repercussions for transgender youth who are already undergoing various medical treatments. “My own personal view that this is too extreme, it was too broad and did not grandfather in those young people who are currently under hormone treatment,” Hutchinson told NPR.
—Signed into law legislation allowing doctors to refuse to treat LGBTQ patients based on religious or moral objections. Types of care that could be denied include treatments for transgender patients, in-patient care for an infection, or grief counseling for a same-sex couple.
—Signed into law a revised religious freedom bill that could allow discrimination against LGBT people.
—Refused to veto and allowed to become law a discriminatory bill that prevents cities and counties from enacting civil rights protections of LGBTQ people. The law was cited by Arkansas’ highest court when it stripped Fayetteville from the ability to enforce its own anti-discrimination ordinance.
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