TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas lawmakers voted Tuesday to send to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk a bill that would ban transgender and nonbinary people from single-sex spaces inconsistent with their sex at birth.
Kansas is the first state to pass the wide-ranging legislation that restricts transgender people’s access to public accommodations, which goes beyond the bathroom and sports bans enacted in other states. The bill was crafted by the Independent Women’s Forum, a conservative organization that has pushed for the legislation nationwide.
The state Senate voted 28-12 Tuesday morning to accept House amendments to the bill after the House approved the policy 83-41 last week.
