With gender-affirming care for minors now banned in Kansas, the weight of their transgender care falls largely on mental health providers. Nobody can police what a therapist talks to their client about.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Local advocates will discuss current anti-trans legislation and community resources at a Trans Day of Visibility event in Lawrence.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Claven Snow’s birth certificate has reflected his name and male gender identity for more than a decade, as does his current driver’s license. But his renewed passport, issued after Trump’s recent executive orders, came back with an “F” sex marker.
For Joanna Herrmann and 100-plus other opponents who spoke at a Kansas House hearing or submitted testimony, SB 76, which would forbid school employees from using preferred pronouns without parental consent, is both personal and hurtful.
The Kansas Senate gave preliminary approval Wednesday to legislation that would ban school district employees from using names or pronouns other than a minor student’s corresponding biological sex or birth certificate without parental permission.
Senate and House Republicans voted Tuesday to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of legislation that bans gender-affirming care for minors, rejecting pleas from Democrats to turn attention instead to issues that concern Kansans.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed Republican-led legislation Tuesday that attempts to ban gender-affirming care for minors, a move a top GOP lawmaker called “reckless and senseless.”
House Republicans dispatched eight amendments proposed by Democrats on Thursday before granting first-round approval of a bill preventing Kansas health professionals from providing individuals under the age of 18 with gender-affirming care.
The Kansas Senate approved with a bipartisan supermajority a bill prohibiting health professionals from providing gender-affirming care to minors and enforcing that statewide ban with civil, financial and regulatory sanctions for violators.
In packed hearings Tuesday at the Kansas Statehouse, lawmakers heard testimony on legislation that would bar doctors from prescribing puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy and other gender-affirming medical care to transgender minors.
