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Kansas bans trans athletes from women's, girls' sports
Kansas is banning transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports from kindergarten through college, the first of several possible new laws restricting the rights of transgender people pushed through by Republican legislators over the wishes of the Democratic governor. The Legislature on Wednesday overrode Gov. Laura Kelly's third veto in three years of the bill and came a day after lawmakers passed a broad "bathroom bill." Nineteen other states have imposed bans on transgender athletes, most recently Wyoming.
"It's a scary time to be raising a trans child in Kansas," said Cat Poland, a lifelong Kansas resident and mother of three who coordinates a Gay-Straight Alliance group at her 13-year-old trans son's school about 40 miles northwest of Wichita. "We may face the very real threat of having to move, and it's heartbreaking. "The ban demonstrates the clout of religious conservatives, reflected in the 2022 platform of the Kansas Republican Party: "We believe God created man and woman."
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