(Daily Caller)—Republican Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio received thousands of dollars in donations from donors who provided transgender medical services or opposed efforts to ban the procedures for minors.
DeWine vetoed House Bill 68 on Friday, which would have prohibited doctors from prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors and banned boys from competing in girls’ sports, just hours before the deadline. A review of donations from 2018 to 2023 found that the governor received $40,300 from the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association (OCHA), Cincinnati Children’s, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and ProMedica Children’s Hospital, all of whom support transgender medical care.
OCHA donated $10,000 to the Mike DeWine and Jon Husted Transition Fund on Dec. 28, 2018, and another $10,000 on Dec. 7, 2022, according to the report. A transition fund allows candidates to spend donations for “transition activities and inaugural celebrations,” according to Ohio’s campaign finance handbook.
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Cincinnati Children’s, an affiliate of OCHA, donated $300 on Dec. 15, 2022, to the fund and ProMedica, another affiliate of OCHA, also donated $10,000 in December 2018, according to the reports. Nationwide Children’s, a third affiliate with OCHA, donated $5,000 in December 2018 and another $5,000 in January 2023 to the transition fund.
The governor’s office referred the Daily Caller News Foundation back to DeWine’s comments on the bill and his veto. DeWine said last week that he was visiting hospitals that provide transgender procedures to hear families out on both sides of the issue but did not elaborate on which hospitals he went to.
Nick Lashutka, president of the OHCA, testified against House Bill 68, arguing that the bill “strips away” the rights of parents and their transgender children, according to The Guardian.
ProMedica, a member of The Ohio Children's Hospital Association and the largest hospital chain in Ohio also gave DeWine $10,000.
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“These youth existed before we established our gender clinics, and they will exist if our clinics are forced to close,” Lashutka said.
A spokesperson for OCHA reiterated to the DCNF that DeWine visited with “clinicians and patient families of Ohio’s children’s hospitals.” The spokesperson also included a statement from Lashutka on the governor’s veto.
“We are thankful for Governor DeWine’s thoughtful approach in thoroughly researching the issue of gender-affirming care and vetoing Sub HB 68 today,” Lashutka said. “We welcome the opportunity to work with the Governor, the Ohio General Assembly and relevant state agencies to ensure Ohio’s youth have access to the critical care they need while also addressing concerns raised during debate on HB 68.”
Cincinnati Children’s has a Transgender Health Center that works with patients from five to 24 years old, according to the hospital’s website. The center’s frequently asked questions section explains that patients can get puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones with family consent and does not list an age limit.
Dr. Patty Manning-Courtney, the hospital’s chief of staff, also testified against House Bill 68, claiming that the impact of the bill would be “felt deeply and dangerously.”
Nationwide Children’s THRIVE Gender Development Program lists “management of gender-affirming medications, inclusive sexual and reproductive health care, menstrual management and other affirming interventions” as well as “fertility preservation options, puberty blockers or gender-affirming medicines” as services they provide, according to its website. The hospital does not note the age a patient must be to receive care from the program.
In 2021, ProMedica created an LGBTQ+ Patient and Family Advisory Council to educate healthcare providers on how to be more inclusive of the LGBTQ community, according to the Buckeye Flame, a local media outlet. The hospital said that the council was part of a larger goal to better include transgender patients and help refer them to medical facilities that can provide them with any care that ProMedica cannot.
A ProMedica spokesperson told the DCNF that the donations took place under “different leadership in place at the time.”
Cincinnati Children’s and Nationwide Children’s did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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Article originally titled, “GOP Gov Who Vetoed Trans Bills Received Over $40,000 From Children’s Hospitals Supporting Sex Change Procedures.”
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Yeah, he consulted with the technocratic “expert” psychologists and social workers, who are, in reality, themselves among the most deluded, insane, stupid nutcases ever to walk the face of the earth.
The delusional lie, and abominable sin, is affirmed in their bubble, but next comes the attempt to force everyone else to give affirmation to their delusion, and that’s not going to happen. So all the “experts” are really doing is butchering the children, destroying their physical health, setting them up for a lifetime of disappointment, as well as turning them into little spoiled brats who will spend the rest of their bitter and rebellious days trying to demand that everyone else affirm their delusional sin.
There is no scenario where such abominable sin is anything but cruel.
There is no scenario where parents who would willfully do that to their child, would do so out of love for their child. None. Parents doing this to their children are doing so out of selfishness and concern only for themselves.
The “experts” think they can make it work by forcing everyone else on the planet to affirm the lie, burn their Bibles and affirm the sin, and go around pretending that the “experts” are so super-duper advanced and supreme that they can change a person’s sex, when they cannot do so and never will.
It takes 5 minutes to reason this out. It’s not rocket science.
– Can a person’s sex be surgically changed? No, and it’s not even close.
– Can you force everyone else on the planet to go along with the delusion? No, and it’s not even close. That would be government-establishment of religion
The “experts” who can’t seem to comprehend and factor these most basic truths, are among some of the stupidest and most wicked-hearted, self-serving people to ever walk this earth. It doesn’t take an “expert” to comprehend such basic facts, anymore than it takes a Ph.D. in mathematics to comprehend that 2+2=4.
And it is the responsibility of our elected officials and the courts to keep these “experts” in check. But rather than fulfill that responsibility, the technocrats are just about being handed full dictatorial reign.
Now their argument is “they exist and have always existed”
Well, no kidding. If they’d bother to pick up a Bible and read it, they’d discover that they’re several thousand years late in finally figuring that out. Deluded transvestites have existed since before Duet. 22:5 was written. Sexual immorality has existed since before Sodom and Gomorrah.
Their arguments are about like saying we should support and affirm armed robbery because kleptomaniacs exist – because there have always been some people who have a strong compulsion to steal.
Then they’ll say, “it doesn’t affect you”, about 30 seconds before they demand that I speak their pronouns, submit my child to their indoctrination in school, fall lock-step in line and endorse and celebrate sin in order to put food on the table.
Well, the justification of wickedness and the condemnation of righteousness are also abominable sins. (Prov. 17:15)
Bottom line, if they’re going to force everyone else to affirm and endorse the immorality and lies, to get on board and go along with the delusion, then they’re going to have to establish a government imposed false religion and set themselves up as the chief priests. Otherwise, it ain’t happening.
It all begs the question … just how smart are these:”experts” in the first place
Did DeWine then truly do his due diligence?
Did he ask the pertinent questions?
Can the sex actually be changed?
Can you force everyone else to go along?
If the sex cannot be changed, and everyone else cannot be forced to affirm, then does that change your expert analysis that affirmation is the correct approach? If not, why? How is it healthy and beneficial then to fool the child into an expectation of affirmation that will not be given, and cannot be forcibly imposed, out in the real world later in life?
No, he didn’t ask these questions. He didn’t do his due diligence, as he claims. And it’s not even close.
Guaranteed, the next he will do is start demanding that everyone else give that affirmation, in a despotic attempt, like and alongside the so-called experts he consulted, to prove himself right.
The only honest and truthful argument the pro-butchery, pro-sin crowd has is that they need to start their brainwashing and butchery earlier in order to create a better illusion.
That’s it … the kids are a carnival sideshow magic trick
It might appear that they have a legitimate argument as it relates to what they call “intersex”. But they do not. The Bible calls them eunuchs by birth. Eunuchs are male, and they are expected to present themselves as males. If they’re so-called “intersex” then a Y chromosome will be present, attesting to the fact that they are in fact male. The fact that they are male was known and written down in God’s word thousands of years ago. So if a child is born a eunuch, and they want to do surgeries and administer medicines to make a eunuch more male (not a choice of male or female, but male), then that may not be sinful, and would not be a delusional lie – though it could be sinful if the focus is on sensuality and sexual immorality. That’s the only circumstance where I might (might) approve of such medical procedures at any age. And I say might, because eunuchs did have a place and purpose, as Jesus reiterated in Matt. 19. It would require more study, prayer, and thought. But of course, in the case of eunuchs who recognize they are male, they are not going to have a problem, whether there is any “affirming care” or not. It would not be sinful or delusional to refer to them as a male, regardless of medical procedures, because they are in fact male.
… did and do have a place and purpose
Jesus’ point was, in part, that eunuchs should not be deemed lesser men simply because they could not marry and have children, in context with His statement on marriage just prior.