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State Government March 7, 2022 - 5:15 pm

‘Trans girls are girls’: LGBTQ supporters beg Kansas lawmakers to drop sports fight

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

Support for Senate Bill 484 is fueled by faith-based anti-LGBTQ interests who package the proposal as a necessary protection for girls against a hypothetical threat. The proposed legislation would ban transgender girls from participating in school activities with other girls, or transgender boys from playing with other boys.

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