Kansas legislators failed to overrule Gov. Laura Kelly over a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a win for transgender rights advocates as states across the country have taken similar steps.
Senate Bill 26 would require the Healing Arts Commission to revoke the medical licenses of doctors found to have performed services.
It also allows individuals to sue if doctors who practice gender reassignment practice later regret it, but the statute of limitations is limited to three years after the individual turns 21.
Gender-affirming care includes a wide range of health care to support a person’s gender identity when it conflicts with the gender assigned at birth.
The LGBTQ community claims it can be an important way to make transgender young people feel supported, and the nation’s largest medical group says treatment can help improve the mental health of vulnerable populations. said that it may be important in increasing
“This bill removes the responsibility of parents to support their children in making decisions that are in their best interest,” said Kansas City Democratic Senator Pat Petty. “So this bill goes too far for us to try to do our part as parents, support our kids, and seek medical advice.”
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Dole said he was concerned the bill would hamper doctors’ ability to offer hormone therapy to children with precocious puberty or other conditions.
“In theory, I like the bill, so this is a tough vote for me,” he said.
Proponents believe the measure is necessary because minors are too young to make such important health care decisions. Many forms of hormone therapy and other treatments are reversible.
“When parents go astray, when the health care system goes astray, the legislature must be the last line of defense,” said Republican Hutchison Senator Mark Steffen.
Kansas Senate votes to nullify Kelly on sweeping bill that could require transgender individuals to use public facilities that match their birth-assigned sex in nearly every aspect of society Did.
But the Kansas House of Representatives adjourned before holding an override vote, which is expected to be a hotly contested race. Instead, measures were to be considered on Thursday morning.
Senate Bill 180 is expected to have a very thin vote.
Republicans have a route to overturning Kerry’s veto, but it will depend on two Democrats voting again in favor of the bill. But one of them, R-Topeka MP Jesse Borjon, said he was unlikely to change course.
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Lawmakers also enacted legislation that strictly defined gender based on genitalia and applied it to county prisons. This proposal could prevent county jails from complying with federal law.
The provisions of Senate Bill 228 were among an uncontroversial set of items to modernize state prison laws.
“They’re hunting every nook and cranny where the culture wars don’t exist,” said Senator Ethan Corson (D-Fairway).
The wording mirrored SB 180, and Republicans said the bill was a common-sense measure. This includes many widely supported items, such as removing the requirement that every Kansas county have a prison.
R-Burlington Rep. Eric Smith said, “This law doesn’t put anyone in an obligatory place where it’s not safe.”
“When we take them to prison, we’re going to find a safe place for them,” he said. We are not making a declaration based on sex, it is based on safety.”