Kansas Lawmakers Override Governor’s Veto Of Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill

Kansans will soon be required to use the bathroom that aligns with their biological sex at birth in all government buildings after state lawmakers in the House voted 87-37 to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto.

According to The Kansas Reflector, the bill requires Kansas residents to use the gender marker of their biological sex assigned at birth on their driver’s licenses and birth certificates.

The new law also invalidates documents that were issued to transgender people previously.

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Sen. Cindy Holscher, D-Overand Park, challenged the Republican-led majority to show evidence that sexual assaults occur in bathrooms by trans people. She quoted various studies to back up her calculations that Kansans have a .00083% chance of being assaulted by a trans person in a restroom.

“You are eight times more likely to get struck by lightning,” Holscher said. “You’re 50 times more likely to die in a car crash, you’re 100 times more likely to be killed by gun violence, and you are 3,500 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a man.”

Following the vote in the state Senate yesterday, GOP Senate President Ty Masterson declared the chamber had “restored sanity” by overturning the governor’s veto.

But as Reflector opinion editor Clay Wirestone says in his follow-up piece, Kansans may be surprised to find out that Republicans have “just voted to send men into ladies’ bathrooms,” because trans men (who were identified at birth as female – see photo below) will now be required to use the ladies’ room.