阿肯色州州长阿萨·哈钦森(Asa Hutchinson)是一位坚定的长期保守派人士，他周三表示，在共和党领导的文化战争中，共和党人已经“偏离”了他们的有限政府原则，共和党不需要“参与每一场文化战争”。

本周，州长发现自己与该州立法机构在众议院1570号法案上意见不一，该法案禁止跨性别青年的性别确认医疗保健。周一，哈钦森否决了该法案，但正确地预测立法机构将推翻他的决定，这发生在第二天。

此举使阿肯色州成为全国第一个禁止18岁以下变性青年接受医疗的州，也使其成为许多共和党立法机构广泛支持的新兴政治文化战争中的避雷针。

哈钦森周三对美国广播公司首席华盛顿记者乔纳森·卡尔和政治总监里克·克莱因说，这项立法的通过违背了共和党旨在维护的一些传统原则。

“这使得立法机构干涉父母在医生指导下做出的决定，”哈钦森在谈到最近通过的关于美国广播公司新闻“权力政治”的立法时说。

“该法案最糟糕的地方在于它没有祖父条款，”哈钦森补充道。州长说，如果没有这种条款，目前在阿肯色州接受激素治疗的患者将无法获得医疗保健。

“我们已经偏离了政府有限角色的理性概念，”他说。“我们在文化和社会方面更加保守，我们已经偏离了在政府中的有限角色的平衡，所以我们需要领导人站出来说‘让我们考虑一下，让我们，让我们领导，让我们不要仅仅扮演那些想参与每一场文化战争的人’。”"

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在本周早些时候否决该法案时，哈钦森称H.B. 1570“政府干预过度”，并概述了该法案将如何开创一个先例，允许政府干预患者、父母和医疗保健专家做出的个人决定。在做出决定之前，哈钦森说他会见了变性青年和健康提供者。

“政府不需要参与每一项决策。他在播客中说:“如果我们要成为一个克制政府和有限政府的一员，我们实际上必须在某个时候实践这一点。”同时他还预测，在不久的将来，更多针对跨性别问题的法案可能会摆在他的桌面上。

根据哈钦森的说法，帮助组成共和党的社会保守团体正试图通过参与关于变性人权利的辩论来“减缓”社会中被认为的“转变”。他补充说，这有时会导致解决“一个不存在的问题。”

“我一直认为，如果你以这种方式行事，你将会产生意想不到的后果，因为你没有处理具体的事情，所以我认为这是一个糟糕的政策，”他在提到H.B. 1570时说。

此前，南达科他州共和党州长克里斯蒂·诺姆(Kristi Noem)否决了一项全面的法案，该法案将禁止跨性别妇女和女孩参加女性运动。批评者很快指出，阿肯色州州长签署了类似的立法——美国公民自由联盟称之为“歧视和可耻的”

阿肯色州州长为他的法案辩护，告诉卡尔和克莱因，他认为每项立法都应该单独考虑。

“运动中的女孩法案说，你不能成为一个生来就是男性的人，不能参加女子田径和女子体育比赛。对我来说，这保护了这项运动的完整性。我签了名，但它确实给人一种印象，这是反跨性别的，”他说。

哈钦森并不是最近成为头条新闻的唯一共和党领导人。本周，佐治亚州和德克萨斯州的立法者面临着该州限制性投票立法对该国一些顶级企业的影响。最大的阻力发生在美国职业棒球大联盟在佐治亚州全面的新法律引发争议后，将今年的全明星赛移出亚特兰大。

虽然哈钦森承认“大公司确实关心一个国家的声誉”，但他不赞成公司最近参与投票权。

“你可以同意或不同意一个州的投票政策，但我不认为这是企业和体育运动应该战斗的地方。我一点也不，”他说。

至于阿肯色州正在进行的政治活动，这位任期有限的州长说，他打算不参加特朗普政府前新闻秘书萨拉·哈克比·桑德斯(Sarah Huckabee Sanders)和州司法部长莱斯利·拉特利奇(Leslie Rutledge)之间正在进行的初选。

“在阿肯色州，将会有一位保守派州长跟随我，至于我，我在私营部门呆了很多年，我喜欢这一面，但我也非常关心我们的国家，我希望有机会帮助塑造我们国家的未来，也希望在我们进入2022年时有机会进行辩论。所以我希望订婚，”哈钦森说。

GOP doesn't need to 'engage in every cultural battle': Arkansas governor

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a staunch, longtime conservative, said Wednesday that amid the GOP-led culture wars, Republicans had "veered" from their principle of limited government and that the GOP doesn't need to "engage in every cultural battle."

This week, the governor found himself at odds with his state’s legislature over its House Bill 1570, which bans gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth. On Monday, Hutchinson vetoed the bill but correctly predicted the legislature would override his decision, which happened the following day.

The move makes Arkansas the first state in the country to prohibit medical treatment for transgender youth who are younger than 18 years old and also made it a lightning rod in an emerging political culture war broadly backed by many Republican legislatures.

Hutchinson told ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl and Political Director Rick Klein on Wednesday that the passage of the legislation contradicts some of the traditional principles the Republican party aims to uphold.

"It puts the legislature interfering with decisions that parents make with the guidance of doctors," Hutchinson said of the recently passed legislation on ABC News' "Powerhouse Politics."

"The worst thing about the bill is that it didn't have a grandfather clause," Hutchinson added. Without this kind of clause, the governor said current patients going through hormonal treatment in Arkansas would have their access to medical care withdrawn.

"We've veered from our intellectual concepts of a limited role of government," he said. "We have moved more toward the cultural, social conservative side and we have veered from that balance of a limited role in government, so we need leaders that will step up and say ‘let's think this through and let's, let's lead and let's not just simply play to those that want to engage in every cultural battle.'"

While issuing his veto of the bill earlier this week, Hutchinson called H.B. 1570 "vast government overreach" and outlined how the bill would set a precedent that would allow the government to interfere with personal decisions made by patients, parents and health care experts. Prior to making his decision, Hutchinson said he met with transgender youth and health providers.

"The government doesn't need to be involved in every decision. If we're going to be a party of a restrained government, and limited government, and we actually have to practice that at some point," he said on the podcast, while also predicting more bills aimed at transgender issues are likely to land on his desk in the near future.

According to Hutchinson, socially conservative groups that help make up the Republican party are attempting to "slow down" a perceived "shift" in society with their involvement in the debate over transgender rights. He added that at times that results in addressing "a non-existent problem."

"I've always believed that if you do it in that fashion, you're going to have unintended consequences because you're not dealing with something concrete, and so I think it's a bad policy," he said in reference to H.B. 1570.

Hutchinson's veto comes on the heels of South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem's veto of a sweeping bill that would have banned transgender women and girls from female sports. Critics were quick to point out that the Arkansas governor signed similar legislation -- which the ACLU called "discriminatory and shameful."

The Arkansas governor defended his approach to the bill, telling Karl and Klein that he believes each piece of legislation should be considered on its own.

"The girls in sport bill said that you cannot be a biological male and compete in girls athletics and girls sports. To me, that protects the integrity of the sport. I signed that, but it did give people the impression that this was anti-transgender," he said.

Hutchinson isn’t the only Republican leader to recently make headlines. This week, lawmakers in Georgia and Texas faced fallout from some of the nation’s top businesses over their state’s restrictive voting legislation. The biggest pushback occurred when Major League Baseball moved this year's All-Star Game out of Atlanta following controversy generated by Georgia's sweeping new law.

Although Hutchinson conceded that "major corporations do have a concern about the reputation of a state," he disapproved of corporations’ recent involvement in voting rights.

"You can agree or disagree with a state's voting policies, but I don't believe that's where corporations and sports should fight the battle. I don't at all," he said.

As for ongoing politics in Arkansas, the term-limited governor says he intends to stay out of the ongoing primary between former Trump administration press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and state Attorney General Leslie Rutledge.

"There's going to be a conservative governor that follows me here in Arkansas, and as for me, I spent a lot of years in private sector and I enjoy that side of it, but I also am very concerned about our country and I hope there's opportunities that can help shape our country's future and also the debate as we go into 2022. So I expect to be engaged," Hutchinson said.