Before recessing last Thursday, lawmakers passed Senate Bill 150, a bill dealing with Kentucky's transgender youth.

Now, here are some of the provisions of the bill.

It bans gender affirming medical care for trans youth.

It allows teachers to use a student's gender pronoun at birth, even if that means ignoring the students wishes.

It banned schools from providing instruction or presentation on sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression with students.

This is like the don't say gay measure in Florida.

But Kentucky's version is broader, and it keeps school boards from allowing transgender students from using restrooms, locker rooms and showers that are different from their birth sex.

We discussed Senate Bill 150 and other legislation affecting the LGBTQ community.

Last night on Kentucky.

Tonight, among other things, our panel discussed the testimony of Jerry Miller, a former Republican state representative who has a seven year old transgender grandchild.

Miller testified against Senate Bill 150.

Kristie, 37 year old Jerry Miller, You brought him up here as a seven year old.

We should be compassionate towards him.

But do you think that he should get on hormone therapy?

Do you think he should have some kind of cancer in which someone starts hormone therapy, which you clearly have no idea what you're talking about?

And this is what drives me crazy.

Start arguing in consultation with their physician.

But typically, right around the time puberty is getting ready to hit is when you go on puberty, regulators and you don't start hormone replacement therapy until late teens.

That is the typical treatment.

But once again, they have no idea what they're talking about because they just want to score cheap political points.

And that's all this is at the end of the day is scoring cheap political points on the lives of children.

Every time you sit there, your body is going to kill Kentucky kids and you couldn't care less about killing.

It couldn't kill.

That could care less.

And that's why we're doing it.

Because you're killing them.

All right.

Unbelievable.

Governor Andy Beshear has not said if he will veto Senate Bill 150, but he has been critical of it.

He says he agrees that it could lead to more trans youth suicides.

If he does veto the bill, Republicans in the House and Senate will have the chance to override the veto when they return to the Capitol on March 29th.

Last night on Kentucky.

Tonight, we shared with you the story of Luke Hine, a 21 year old who regrets the decision to seek gender affirming medical care at age 16.

I was a young teenager who had a history of mental health issues, a rough home life at the time, and I had also been heavily, heavily, you know, preyed upon and sexually exploited online to the point that authorities got involved.

And I sort of spiraled into this hatred of myself and my body to the point that I found these online spaces that really told me, oh, you don't beat your chest because you're uncomfortable.

You know, because it's a normal teenage thing or because you have trauma around it.

It's because you're a boy in the wrong body.

And obviously, as someone who was young and vulnerable and really, you know, just trying to find anything to grasp on to the time that this and I really believe that.

And as a result, you know, I go into mental health professionals about that at the time that I thought we need to tell your parents they can use the help that you need, that the issue is that they only affirmed this.

No one questioned why, you know, all of a sudden, as a teenager, these feelings popped up.

They only affirmed a kind of employee to my parents and scared them.

You know, the line of do you want to do you want a daughter or a living son?

Which that's not what a doctor should say.

That's the life of an activist.

And it is also blatantly not true.

From there, I went down the medical path.

That was really the only option we were presented with.

And my very first medical intervention was a double mastectomy at 16, and a few months later I was put on cross-sex hormones, which was testosterone, and I took that for four years until I really grew up and started getting things together and really thinking about what I want for my life.

And I realized that I definitely was not a place where I could consent for that.

I couldn't consent to the long term impacts.

I couldn't consent to being a medical patient for the rest of my life in this way, not mentioning the physical damage that stuff Nelson has done to me, where I have constant joint pain, my vocal cords ache.

I watched all of my muscle mass at this point, pretty much just waste away.

I've watched parts of my body atrophy away.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to carry a child.

All this stuff that they you know, they looked me in the eyes at 16 and told me this was hair.

And, you know, I'm to the point where I grew up a little bit and I currently feel just straight up abandoned by the medical professionals that did this.

Are now you an activist on the opposite side of the LGBTQ community?

Most of the transitions we are lesbian, gay or bisexual in some way and, you know, framing it as if we are some are activist against that when we just want to protect kids, I think is a little insidious because the argument here is not that you are against you either.

You know, you either are on the side of the LGBT community and you want to medical or you're against both.

That is not the argument that is going on here.

The argument is is cannot consent this level of medicalization and also this is a lot of trans in the way that is children who maybe are tomboys or effeminate, you know, who maybe just need a chance to grow up.

It really isn't as simple as it's not against the LGBT community is protecting children.

Whether those kids end up transitioning later in life, whether they end of day, whether they end up story, no matter how they end up, it doesn't matter because they're still children.

They still cannot consent and they deserve to grow up all regardless of what kind of adult they grow to.

Yesterday, we shared the story of a Lexington mother who spoke out against the anti-trans measures in Frankfort, incorrectly identified her child as transgender.

They are non-binary.

I apologize for the error.

You can see more of last night's discussion about legislation affecting the LGBTQ community online on demand at CNET dot org slash k y tonight.