Kansas lawmakers advance bills pushing back on trans rights

TOPEKA, Kan. — (AP) — Republican proposals pushing back on transgender rights advanced Thursday in the GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature. The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would would ban transgender athletes from girls and women’s K-12, club and college sports. The Senate passed two bills and sent them to the House. One would require the state medical board to revoke the Kansas medical licenses of doctors providing gender-affirming care to minors. The other Senate bill would define a person legally as male or female based on their anatomy at birth. That measure would prevent transgender men and women from changing their birth certificates and driver’s licenses after transitioning.