Ian Benalcazar, far right, a 13-year-old transgender boy from Lawrence, Kan., speaks outside the Kansas Statehouse during a rally on Transgender Day of Visibility, Friday, March 31, 2023, in Topeka, Kan. Ian is among more than 100 people, including many transgender youth, who came to the Statehouse to protest bills before Kansas lawmakers that would roll back transgender rights. Ian Benalcazar, far right, a 13-year-old transgender boy from Lawrence, Kan.
TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas bill that would bar transgender people from using public bathrooms or changing their name or gender on their driver’s license cleared the GOP-controlled Legislature on Tuesday by margins suggesting backers could override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s expected veto. The state Senate voted 28-12 with one vote more than a two-thirds majority that would be needed to overturn any veto, giving final passage to an earlier House-passed version of the legislation and sending it to the governor.
The measure deals with bathrooms, locker rooms and other facilities, and defines “sex” as “either male or female, at birth,” a move LGBTQ+-rights advocates said would legally erase transgender people and deny recognition to non-binary, gender fluid and gender non-conforming people. The sweeping transgender bill, one of the broadest of its kind in the nation, is among several hundred measures aimed at rolling back LGBTQ rights pursued by Republicans this year across the United States.Seven states elsewhere have enacted laws banning transgender students from using school bathrooms and locker rooms associated with their gender identities, most recently Kentucky.
Don't forget where all this started.
This is great
Jesus Christ is a Jew. Jews are monotheistic; one God. They don't allow graven images. Christians believe in father, son, and holy Spirit and a fourth god, Satan polytheistic. They paint pictures of Jesus Christ. Graven images. God looks transgender to me.
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i dont believe they are saying transgenders cannot use the restroom. That is a dumb headline so i looked and no it does not say that what its says if they are born a male they use the mens room.and if a female the use the little girls room. Also, if it's a family bathroom its ok
Good, reality wins
Another freaking feel good story. Xoxo
Time for places like California to start imposing sanctions on these backwaters.
What now? Trans bathrooms? USA forgets issues like my grandma forgets where she is… what happened to abortion rights? Is trans a means of throwing off the scent on other topics?
feels like a dishonest headline. No one has been banned from all public bathrooms. They are banning people from using the bathroom that doesn’t correspond to their birth sex. The solution to this is quite simple – you have female, and mixed.
The nongender people sure do love the gender bathrooms 🤔.
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The level of hatred towards these people by conservatives is frightening. If you think you’re a Christian, you’re lying to yourself.
Yes!!!!!!!!
Lol. No sex weirdos allowed in fly over country
Excellent news. This should be happening all over the country. No men should be allowed in women's locker rooms, bathrooms, etc. No-one shld be able to falsify gvt documents pretending humans can change sex. This entire ideology is utterly absurd & sexist.
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LONG LIVE Kansas
There is a tomorrow still ! Let's celebrate
Thank god I live in a state who lets everyone use the bathroom.
Jesus christ why does anyone even care
These ass backwards states and their hate is unhinged.
We are dealing with people who believe it's their God right to terrorize and oppress the lgbtq community.
People need to mind their own goddamn business! FFS! 🤦
Look. I never met a tansgender that I know of, and their status does not affect my life. But why do Republicans constantly want to discriminate and unconstitutionally mess with groups' civil rights. Just do your job and help your communities and state economically.
So much for the party of small government
No one is banned from using public bathrooms.
The_Feminist_TM Hurrah for Kansas!
Totally motivated by religious conservatives' agendas imposing religious morality on their citizens. Also known as christofascism !
Good. More sensible pushback against the transgender cultists.
Great! Thanks for the good news!
Man just let people be
Good
Why waste time making a law that affects less than 1% of the population?
Gender is an immutable, genetic trait.
From using public bathrooms, or just their actual sexes bathroom? Bogus story guys.
And democracy speaks ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Sad, that so many people live in fear of anyone unlike themselves
This bill does NOT bar them from using public restrooms.
P’s don’t belong in the V bathroom
Good thing the important things are being resolved
Excellent!
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Unbelievable
Why are people so proud to be bigots these days?
10 years ago everybody would agree with this and call it common sense.
This is getting ridiculous. They are not the problem.
Build three separate bathroom. I don't understand why Americans are fighting for bathroom instead of health care.
'A Kansas bill that would bar transgender people from using public bathrooms...' This is just a bald-faced lie, and another example of why you shouldn't trust the AP at all, ever, for anything.
99% of child molesters are cis men. 97% of mass shootings are men. Nearly 99% of assaults are perpetrated by men. When are we going to start banning men, clearly the most dangerous people in the country, from being able to commit these crimes?
How exactly would they prove that? Interestingly that such a bizarre provision doesn't apply to cis people entering bathrooms occupied by minors 'for the purpose of arousing or gratifying a sexual desire.' Wouldn't want all those religious leaders inconvenienced.
How do you bar transgender people from using a public bathroom?
Good This is how you help mental illness, rather than enabling it.
Next, Kansas Republicans will bring back 'Whites only' drinking fountains.
Good double down
GOOD! Keep men out of women's safe-spaces (restrooms) and tell the truth on their IDs.
Falsify information on your license is already a crime.
So much focus on useless legislation.
We are needlessly pitting people against each other. Trans women insist upon defining their own identities as they insist that women use the label “cis” & succumb to a definition of womanhood which was created by others & offends many of us. More dialogue is needed.
Good. Men use mens bathrooms Women use womens bathrooms Not that hard I don't need a man in the bathroom with my young daughter and if I see it happen I'll say something.
You can't change your NAME?! So Terry won't be able to switch to Bobby or Drew or Kris or Jessie?
All public bathrooms?
Man, who gives a fuck what a drivers license says or what bathroom people shit in, find a real issue to address.
This writing was on the wall. You can’t push & push society into uncomfortable & unknown waters & not expect pushback. The gay community have been dragged into this trans movement unwillingly when things were finally normalizing for them. Stop the sexualization of children!
Excellent
Next step, courts will likely determine that it is unconstitutional, a clear violation of one’s civil rights and equal protections
Seems like those olden days
God's work being done
Just for perspective. There are fewer than most people think.
Good to see rationality prevail.
Next stop: Supreme Court.
Headline is misleading
These bills are just cruel. It would be nice if Republicans put even a tenth of this energy into serious governance.
there's a reason we call them Repleblicun^s
more common sence
Great news
Out-fucking-standing!
Is this banning trans people from using bathrooms at all? Insane
Same republicans - smaller government , stay outta my business , blah blah somethin something religious FeeeDums- something something …. This party has turned back the clock so many times it’s time to get a bigger watch.
Another state to NEVER set foot in..
Excellent!!
great news!! finally some common sense.
literally, anything but the guns!
What's the difference between a trans person changing their name on a driver's license and anyone who legally changed their name? If I legally changed my name to Leonard Johnson, could I not change my license?
Why can't we just have a boys/girls/trans bathroom? Doesn't seem unfair?
Why don’t Trans people wanna have a bathrobe to themselves why is it so important to use a bathroom made for those who were born a woman/man
Wrong. The bill requires you to use the bathroom associated with your assigned gender at birth, like people have been doing since the advent of public bathrooms. It does not stop a single person from using the restroom
Wait, is the state allowed to determine people’s name for them? Can we just change the name of all Republican candidates to “Adolf Hitler” for the giggles?
Does that mean that no one can change their name in Kansas? Because I'm pretty sure you're supposed to be able to change your legal name for any reason you feel like or no reason at all; so long as you're not trying to do it to get out of a debt.
Awesome!
Backwoods rednecks. The youth of this nation will undo all your fear based BS after you boomers are all 6 feet under.
How are they going to know if a transgender person uses a public bathroom
Based.
Welcome to Nazi America
Hope they are prepared for some messy results after they try to bar women they think are too tall, too muscular, too hairy, too masculine, or too ambiguous from using bathrooms. Short men, men with long hair, slender men with delicate features, overly groomed men...wait for it.
The money should be spent of getting them mental health help.
So I would not be allowed to officially and legally change my name?
Good.
How can you make it illegal for someone to change their name? This is blatant fascism for the sake of it
Great news! We need more laws like this but with even greater depth. For example, it should be made illegal to impersonate the opposite sex in public.
You guys do know that non gender specific bathrooms are common in the rest of the world right
So are they supposed to pee in their pants?
'Small government'
Sounds about right
Good. Because you know, science. No hard feelings
These bills just keep passing, easily. Meanwhile, the media says everyone thinks it's genocide....but no one seems to really care but the blue hairs. Most of the US favors these laws, obviously.
Nice. Good for Kansas.
Politicians wasting time on this nonsense. If I lived in Kansas, I would be angry
First good news of the day
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