Kansas enacts invasive transgender sports ban despite governor's veto.

Kansas has banned trans students from participating in women’s and girl’s sports from kindergarten through college, with the Republican-controlled legislature overriding a previous veto by the Democratic governor. The ban will not only be discriminatory and create heightened scrutiny for trans and gender-nonconforming girls and women, but it will lead the state into murky waters in terms of how institutions handle enforcement. The bill, which Republicans call a “women’s bill of rights,” defines sex in binary terms as “either male or female, at birth,” and advocates say it would lead to the legal erasure of transgender, gender nonconforming, and intersex people.