Fri Apr 28, 2023 – 3:58 pm EDT
TOPEKA (LifeSiteNews) — Kansas Republicans have voted to override Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of legislation to keep gender-confused males out of female restrooms, setting up arguably the strongest law of its kind to take effect starting in July.
SB 180 affirms that “sex” is defined by biology and established at birth, and that “distinctions between the sexes with respect to athletics, prisons or other detention facilities, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, locker rooms, restrooms and other areas where biology, safety or privacy are implicated that result in separate accommodations are substantially related to the important governmental objectives of protecting the health, safety and privacy of individuals in such circumstances.”
“Any school district, or public school thereof, and any state agency, department or office or political subdivision that collects vital statistics for the purpose of complying with anti-discrimination laws or for the purpose of gathering accurate public health, crime, economic or other data shall identify each individual who is part of the collected data set as either male or female at birth,” it adds.
The bill does not lay out enforcement mechanisms, which was a point of
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