Sound the alarms! We have an emergency on our hands! It’s not the homelessness crisis, the nonexistent job market or skyrocketing health care costs — it’s making sure people use the “right” bathroom. Because, of course, ensuring that people use the bathroom aligning with their birth sex is the threat Kansans want their elected officials spending their valuable time on.
The Kansas legislature passed the “Bathroom Bill” — Senate Bill 244 — on Feb. 18, overriding Governor Laura Kelly’s veto. The bill requires people in government buildings, like public schools and universities, to use the bathroom that matches their biological sex at birth and to use their birth gender on their driver’s licenses and birth certificates.
SB 244 initially didn’t even have anything to do with gender identification. The original bill was about investment bonds. The Senate expedited the “Bathroom Bill” through a “gut-and-go” procedure, taking the pre-existing bonds bill that they had already passed, gutting...
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