Mon Feb 27, 2023 – 3:12 pm EST
TOPEKA (LifeSiteNews) – The Kansas Senate has voted 26-10 to approve proposed legislation that would officially recognize a biologically accurate understanding of sexual identity in state law, drawing a line in the sand against efforts to redefine gender as fluid.
The Daily Wire reports that the Women’s Bill of Rights, passed last Thursday, defines a “female” as an individual “whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova,” and a “male” as one whose reproductive system “is developed to fertilize the ova of a female.”
State Democrats, none of whom voted for the bill in the Senate, blasted it as “offensive,” but its lead sponsor, Republican state Sen. Renee Erickson, argues that “there are legitimate reasons to distinguish between the sexes with respect to prisons, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers and other areas where safety and privacy are needed.”
The bill is expected to be vetoed by Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly, but it highlights a new avenue sympathetic states can take to strengthen their legal ground against being pressured to adopt transgender bathroom, pronoun, or athletic policies.
Conservatives (as well as some liberals, such as author J.K.
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