KS: Senate attempts to override slew of vetoed transgender bills, but care ban fails

TOPEKA — The Senate revived a wide-ranging transgender bathroom ban, despite concerns that the ban, called a “women’s bill of rights,” is overly intrusive and doesn’t actually give women more rights.

Senators successfully overturned Kelly’s veto of Senate Bill 180 Wednesday, voting 28-12 to pass the bill back to the House for a final vote. To override Kelly’s veto, 84 votes are needed in the House and 27 in the Senate.....

The Senate narrowly allowed Kelly’s veto of a bill essentially banning gender-affirming care for Kansans under the age of 18 to stand, with 26 voting in favor of overriding the veto and 14 against.

SB 26 would allow for civil suits against doctors who provided gender-affirming care for those under age 18. It would also revoke the licenses of physicians who offered this care, starting in July.

The bill blocks providing “testosterone to females,” “doses of estrogen to males,” and prescribing puberty-blocking medications to those under the required age, along with gender-transition surgery.





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