Tue May 3, 2022 – 6:14 pm EDT
TOPEKA, Kansas (LifeSiteNews) – Kansas lawmakers failed to override Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of legislation that would have kept gender-confused males out of sporting events designed specifically for females as well as a bill empowering parents to challenge public school curricula.
Kelly vetoed both measures on April 15, arguing that the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act was “divisive,” would repel businesses, and “didn’t come from the experts” in school athletics; and that under the parental-rights bill, which would require schools to develop a process through which parents can raise objections to classroom material, “money that should be spent in the classroom would end up being spent in the courtroom.”
The Washington Times reported that the Kansas Senate successfully voted 28-10 to override, but the Kansas House vote on the sports bill was 81-41, just three votes short of the two-thirds super-majority necessary to enact the law over the governor’s opposition, while the House’s override vote on the parental rights bill fared even worse at 72-50.
Fairness in Women’s Sports supporters argue that indulging supposedly transgender athletes’ desire to compete as their “new gender” undermines the rational basis
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