Kansas Democratic Governor Laura Kelly vetoed legislation that would ban so-called sex-change surgeries for minors, ultimately claiming that the bill violated parental rights.

Kansas lawmakers passed a bill that would generally prohibit puberty blockers, hormones, and transgender surgeries claiming to make children members of the opposite sex, as well as remove medical licenses from physicians who execute the irreversible practices on minors.

Kelly said in a statement that lawmakers should “be focused on ways to help Kansans cope with rising prices” rather than standing “between a parent and a child who needs medical care.”

“This legislation will also drive families, businesses, and health care workers out of our state, stifling our economy and exacerbating our workforce shortage issue,” she claimed. “It is disappointing that the legislature continues to push for government interference in Kansans’ private medical decisions instead of focusing on issues that improve all Kansans’ lives.”

The chief executive has now vetoed such legislation three times. Kansas Republicans, who maintain substantial majorities in the state legislature, have failed to override past vetoes.

Kansas Republican State House Speaker Dan Hawkins nevertheless vowed that the chamber stands “ready to override this reckless and senseless veto.” Kansas Republican State Senate President Ty Masterson likewise said that his chamber “stands firmly on the side of protecting Kansas children and will swiftly override her veto before the ink from her pen is dry.”

Ohio Republicans similarly had to override a veto last year after Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine nixed a bill to prohibit so-called sex-change hormones and surgeries for minors.

At least twenty-six state legislatures across the nation have now approved prohibitions on transgender surgeries and puberty blockers for children, which have been criticized for the irreversible physical harm they render and the biological impossibility of changing individual sex.