Democratic Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards has vetoed a bill that would have protected children from life-altering transgender surgeries and hormone procedures. 

Edwards vetoed the “Stop Harming Our Kids Act,” a bill that would have prohibited a wide range of transgender procedures on children, including giving girls who identify as boys double mastectomies. It would also have banned giving children cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.

“Just as conservative courts have found in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee, I believe that there is no legitimate state interest and no rational basis that justifies harming this very small population of children, their families, and the healthcare who care for them or for the cruel and extreme consequences imposed on children through the overt denial of healthcare by this bill,” Edwards claimed in a letter to Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnadyer explaining his veto.

He claimed that the law would be a violation of the 14th Amendment and claimed that lawmakers believing in limited government should not support the bill, which he characterized as part of a “targeted assault on children.”

Despite the governor’s veto, the bill could still have a path forward as there is a supermajority of Republicans in the state’s House and Senate. The bill passed the Senate by a vote of 29-10 and the House by a vote of 75-25.

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A Republican state senator previously held up the bill in committee before it was moved to another committee from where it advanced. Initially, Republican state Senator Fred Mills joined Democrats in a 5-4 vote on the Health and Welfare Committee to block the advancement of the bill. Edwards reportedly pressured lawmakers on the committee to kill the bill. 

Roughly 20 states have passed bans on life-altering transgender procedures on children, including Kentucky, which is also governed by a Democrat. The Republican legislature was able to override his veto before portions of the law were just blocked by a federal judge.

The laws have faced an uphill battle, with federal judges in Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, and Florida blocking portions or all of the bills, largely claiming the legislation could violate the 14th Amendment.

Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a motion for an emergency stay from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals after U.S. District Judge Eli Richardson placed a temporary injunction on Tennessee’s prohibition of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for children, which have been shown to have life-altering impacts.

Former Democratic New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi was mocked online late this week after complaining about having to pay off her student loans in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling against President Joe Biden’s student loan cancellation program.

“In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000 is [sic] student loan debt,” Biaggi tweeted. “I’ve been paying loans for 11 years. Even paid two of them off completely. In 2023, my balance is $206,000.”

In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000 is student loan debt.

I’ve been paying loans for 11 years. Even paid two of them off completely.

In 2023, my balance is $206,000.

— Alessandra Biaggi (@Biaggi4NY) June 30, 2023

Some social media users pointed out a New York Post article from last year that said that the far-left Biaggi “moved into a stately $1,137,500 estate in leafy Bedford, NY” in a “ritzy suburban enclave.”

“This far-left ex-NY state senator & spouse bought a $1.13 Million home in a posh NYC ‘burb last year,” Fox News contributor Dagen McDowell tweeted. “The 20% down payment for a mortgage of that size would have more than paid off this student loan debt. Wails for home loan bailouts imminent.”

Psychology professor Geoffrey Miller responded, “And we taxpayers should bail you out… why, exactly?”

Conservative writer Christopher F. Rufo wrote: “You need Dave Ramsey, not Joe Biden.”

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“You could probably rent out the carriage house on your $1M estate or let go of some of your Mexican cleaning ladies to pay it off faster,” Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry tweeted.

Tristan Tate, the brother of Andrew Tate, responded: “The man in work boots didn’t go to Law School. He doesn’t have a high lawyer’s salary, he makes significantly less money than you do. He pays his taxes and it isn’t HIS job to pay for the tools you’ve used to live your upper class lifestyle. Pay for your own education.”

Former UFC/MMA fighter Jake Shields tweeted: “It’s not my responsibility to pay off Harvard graduate’s student loans. If you couldn’t afford it you could have gone to a different school.”