Kansas lawmakers advance bills pushing back on trans rights

TOPEKA, Kan. — Republican proposals pushing again on transgender rights superior Thursday within the GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature.

The measure most certainly to finally grow to be legislation this yr would ban transgender athletes from women and girls’s Ok-12, membership and faculty sports activities.

The Home authorised it, 82-40, sending it to the Senate.

The 2 Republicans absent Thursday seemingly would have voted sure to provide supporters the two-thirds majority of 84 votes wanted to override a veto from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. She vetoed two earlier proposals.

The Senate voted 26-11 to move a invoice aimed toward stopping docs from offering gender-affirming care to minors.

The invoice says the state medical board should revoke the Kansas licenses of docs who’re discovered to have offered such care. Additionally, they might be sued by former sufferers.

Senators additionally voted 26-10 to approve a invoice that might outline an individual legally as male or feminine based mostly on their anatomy at beginning.

The measure would stop transgender women and men from altering their beginning certificates and driver’s licenses after transitioning, and it may drive them to make use of restrooms and different amenities related to the gender assigned to them at beginning.

Each Senate payments went to the Home, and each have been a single vote wanting having a two-thirds majority.

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