Assembly Bill 2164 authored by Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) would have prohibited California’s governor from recognizing a request for extradition of a person related to their providing a legally protected healthcare activity in the Golden State to transgender individuals, or if they provide reproductive services. It provided certain exemptions, such as an extradition required by federal law.
But your problem is you are not acknowledging the people you’re talking to or about. Somebody says I disagree on sports and you bring up medical care.
I remember back in the day democrats came out against gay marriage. Many people recognized this was a necessary thing for them to say in order to win elections. And the net result for gay people was a supreme court that granted them the right to get married.
The Trans community hears somebody disagree with their right to play whatever sport they want and there reaction is to burn the whole country to the ground. It is short sighted.
If a politician says they don’t support your right to Healthcare, that is specific to that politician. Newsom has signed plenty of bills that support the Trans community. Even in his conversation with Charlie Kirk he gave a lot of support to the Trans community which I generally ignored.
He vetoed a bill aimed at protecting trans medical care. That’s what this entire discussion has been about. Fuck off with your sports.
His reason, as I mentioned in another comment, was that this bill was intended to limit the governor’s rights. Since he is the outgoing governor, he didn’t think it would be right to sign a bill that limits the rights of the new governor. This is something Republicans have done to Democrats in the past and is also not OK.
Be careful about getting triggered by a headline when there is nuance in the article.
Limit the governor’s power to do what exactly? Let’s see here…
You support here the governor being allowed to extradite anyone who provides medical care to trans people, as well as pregnant people. You argue to prevent this is not okay. And you don’t understand why trans people are upset? Are you even trying?
Not every bill that has good things in it is good. It makes for a great rage bating headline, though.
His actual comment if you care:
So you think a legislature trying to reign in executive power and put additional guardrails in place to curtail “executive authority” is a bad thing? Especially when this is the guy trying to replace Trump?
Ignoring the healthcare aspect of this bill and just taking that argument at face value, there is no circumstance where I would elect a president who has no interest in ceding authority back to a legislature after this administration’s shitshow. We clearly need less executive authority, and if Newsom is treating that as a non-starter, he’s not fit for office.
I think it’s different than vetoing a bill because he hates the Trans community. That’s what this headline implies, and people are going right along with it.
This sounds like setting wildly unrealistic expectations about who is acceptable to vote for.
So that’s a no, you aren’t trying.
Have a nice day.
We can agree to disagree. That’s fine. But you aren’t right just cause you think so strongly about it.