Thu Apr 13, 2023 – 4:57 pm EDT
TOPEKA, Kansas (LifeSiteNews) – Kansas lawmakers have formally overridden a veto by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly of legislation to ban gender-confused individuals from participating in sex-specific athletic teams that conflict with their actual sex, ensuring the law will take effect.
HB 2238, the “Fairness in Women’s Sports” bill, requires interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletic teams to be designated according to biological sex and prohibits biological males from participating in teams intended for women and girls. Provisions of the bill would also apply to K-12 public schools as well as post-secondary institutions.
Kelly vetoed the bill after it was passed by the legislature, claiming it would “harm the mental health of our students” and “reverse the progress we’ve made in recruiting businesses and creating jobs” by “send[ing] a signal to prospective companies that Kansas is more focused on unnecessary and divisive legislation than becoming a place where young people want to work and raise a family.”
Kelly vetoed similar legislation two other times over the past three years, but this time the legislature had the votes to override, the Associated Press reported, at 84-40 in the state House
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