Posted on Jan 11, 2023
Kansas right pushing back more aggressively on LGBTQ rights
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Conservative Kansas legislators are pushing back more aggressively this year on LGBTQ-rights issues than in the past two years, with proposals to ban gender-affirming care for trangender youth and restrict how public schools discuss sexual orientation and gender identity.
Top Republican lawmakers on Tuesday outlined an agenda for the year that includes culture war issues pursued by Republicans in other states, including a ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s K-12, club and college sports. Their broader agenda on LGBTQ-rights issues this year in Kansas also comes after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly narrowly won reelection in November despite GOP attacks over her vetoes of two bills restricting transgender athletes.
On LGBTQ-rights issues, the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature focused in 2021 and 2022 on trangender athletes. Lawmakers haven’t considered a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth or bills to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use. Proposals on what schools teach on history and sexuality have not gone as far as a Florida law derided by critics as a “Don’t Say Gay” policy.
Top Republican lawmakers on Tuesday outlined an agenda for the year that includes culture war issues pursued by Republicans in other states, including a ban on transgender athletes in girls’ and women’s K-12, club and college sports. Their broader agenda on LGBTQ-rights issues this year in Kansas also comes after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly narrowly won reelection in November despite GOP attacks over her vetoes of two bills restricting transgender athletes.
On LGBTQ-rights issues, the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature focused in 2021 and 2022 on trangender athletes. Lawmakers haven’t considered a ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth or bills to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use. Proposals on what schools teach on history and sexuality have not gone as far as a Florida law derided by critics as a “Don’t Say Gay” policy.
Kansas right pushing back more aggressively on LGBTQ rights
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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..."State Rep. Brandon Woodard, a gay Kansas City-area Democrat, called the measure “a garbage bill.”
“Gender-affirming care is live-saving and this bill is dangerous, hateful and will lead to death by suicide,” he said.
During a Statehouse news conference for introducing GOP leaders' agenda, Masterson decried what he called a “sexualized, woke agenda" in public schools. Later, he told reporters that he wants to pursue a law that would spell out limits on what schools can teach or discuss about sexuality issues by grade level.
Masterson said he's worried about schools focusing on people's “innate characteristics” and “dividing us up into different groups.”
“We've gotten completely away from, basically, fundamental academics,” he said. “And it's not helping our children.”
But state Rep. Susan Ruiz, a lesbian Kansas City-area Democrat, said the “radical right” is creating the problems.
“These are just kids who are trying to understand themselves,” she said. “They are coming after children who are vulnerable.”
..."State Rep. Brandon Woodard, a gay Kansas City-area Democrat, called the measure “a garbage bill.”
“Gender-affirming care is live-saving and this bill is dangerous, hateful and will lead to death by suicide,” he said.
During a Statehouse news conference for introducing GOP leaders' agenda, Masterson decried what he called a “sexualized, woke agenda" in public schools. Later, he told reporters that he wants to pursue a law that would spell out limits on what schools can teach or discuss about sexuality issues by grade level.
Masterson said he's worried about schools focusing on people's “innate characteristics” and “dividing us up into different groups.”
“We've gotten completely away from, basically, fundamental academics,” he said. “And it's not helping our children.”
But state Rep. Susan Ruiz, a lesbian Kansas City-area Democrat, said the “radical right” is creating the problems.
“These are just kids who are trying to understand themselves,” she said. “They are coming after children who are vulnerable.”
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