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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.
TOPEKA — 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 GO
A Kansas bill to impose a ban on transgender people using the bathroom of their choice and also to ban people from changing the name or gender on their driver's licenses cleared the Legislature Tuesday.
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Both bills are among measures aimed at rolling back LGBTQ rights pursued by Republicans this year across the country. The Kansas bill focuses on bathrooms, locker rooms, and other facilities.