Click Releases Statement on Temporary Restraining Order to SAFE Act, Save Women's Sports Act

COLUMBUS – State Representative Gary Click (R-Vickery) released the following statement Tuesday about a recent two-week pause which was placed on HB 68, the SAFE Act and Save Women’s’ Sports Act by a Franklin County Common Pleas Court judge.

The full statement is below:

“We are disappointed but not surprised by this decision. The battle to protect children's rights is a marathon, not a sprint. Based on what I have seen in other states I have anticipated some early disappointments to be followed by eventual victories. This seems to be the pattern as demonstrated by yesterday's SCOTUS decision to allow Idaho’s law, which has even stronger provisions protecting children, to be enforced. 

This is a temporary measure and the court has not made its final decision. We have our eyes on the finish line rather than the mile markers. 

It deserves to be reiterated that there is no constitutional right to sterilize or chemically castrate children. Neither the Ohio nor the United States Constitutions sanction amputating a minor’s healthy body parts in order to treat a mental health condition. 

It is unconscionable that health care providers would pursue reckless treatment plans which complicate a child’s mental health, increase the risk of suicide, and leave them with permanent physical injuries. More and more physicians are coming out against the lack of ethics and understanding revolving around gender experimentation both in America and around the world. Professionals are more and more embarrassed by and barely recognize their own profession and are calling on us to regulate an industry that is failing to regulate itself.

Attorney General Yost understands the intricacies of the judicial process and continues to earn my confidence. We will cross the finish line together and protect all of Ohio’s children to the fullest extent of the law.”