North Carolina Lawmakers Override Dem Governor’s Veto Of Bill Preventing ‘Sexual Exploitation Of Women And Minors’

  Abigail Nichols

The North Carolina state legislature overrode the Democrat governor’s veto of HB805, which seeks to “prevent the sexual exploitation of women and minors,” on Tuesday, passing it into law.

Both the state House and the state Senate voted to override Gov. Josh Stein’s veto of the a Republican sponsored legislation that would officially “recognize two sexes in all administrative rules, regulations, or public policies adopted” by the state, prohibit state funding from going toward trans procedures, and require schools to “adopt policies” enabling parents and students to opt out of curriculum on religious grounds. According to the North Carolina Family Policy Council, the law will also “extend the statute of limitations to ten years for a malpractice action arising out of injury associated with a gender transition procedure.”

The legislation cites Trump’s January executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which clarifies that U.S. policy recognizes “two sexes” and directs agencies to end federal funding of transgender ideology.

Gov. Stein vetoed the legislation on July 3, saying he supports the pornography restrictions in the original version of the bill, but he painted the revised version containing the other provisions added in the Senate as a “mean-spirited” attempt “to further divide us by marginalizing vulnerable North Carolinians.” Stein’s veto seemed specifically related to a section added to the legislation that requires state records to include both the “amended” and original version of birth certificates for those who are issued a new one after a sex “change.”

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