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NC Gov Vetoes Anti-LGBTQ Bills But GOP Holds Super-Majority

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has vetoed three anti-LGBTQ bills, but with veto-proof majorities in both chambers, political watchers in the state expect his vetoes to be overridden.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (photo: official Facebook)

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has vetoed three anti-LGBTQ bills, but with veto-proof majorities in both chambers, political watchers in the state expect his vetoes to be overridden.

From NBC News:

One of the three vetoed bills would bar North Carolina medical professionals from providing hormone therapy, puberty-blocking drugs and surgical gender-transition procedures to anyone under 18, with limited medical exceptions.

Another bill that North Carolina Republicans could enact over Cooper’s opposition would require public school teachers to alert parents before they call a student by a different name or pronoun.

The third bill would prohibit transgender girls from playing on middle school, high school and college sports teams designated for girls.

The first bill regarding hormone therapy has a clause allowing those young people who begin such treatment to continue if their physicians deem it necessary and their parents consent.

In the case of the “pronoun bill,” transgender and nonbinary youth testified in hearings they were concerned for closeted friends who might be outed to unsupportive parents.

This isn’t the first time Cooper has stood up for LGBTQ youth. In the past, he’s issued executive orders prohibiting use of state funds for so-called conversion therapy, and a separate order regarding LGBTQ protections.