Posted on 05/01/2023 9:11:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Kansas has become the first state to adopt a definition of gender with the passage of legislation that keeps men, no matter what gender they identify as, out of women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and other intimate spaces.
It also separates inmates and restricts participation in sports according to one’s sex at birth.
The move came late in the afternoon of April 27, when the state Legislature voted to override Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of S.B. 180, which became known as the “Women’s Bill of Rights.”
Under it, a female is defined as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova.” A male is defined as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female.”
It also defines gender words calling for “woman” and “girl” to be used to refer to human females and “man” and “boy” to refer to human males. It defines “mother” as a parent of the female sex and “father” as a parent of the male sex.
The override comes a little more than a week after Kelly vetoed the bill on April 20, after it was passed by a two-to-one margin between Republicans and Democrats in both the House and Senate.
Kelly said she vetoed the legislation because she was concerned it would open the state up to costly discrimination lawsuits, cause a loss of federal funding, and hurt the Sunflower State’s economy.
The bill garnered support from a range of groups, including one staunchly pro-choice women’s rights group.
“Victory!” wrote the Women’s Liberation Front (WOLF) on Twitter, upon news of the veto override.
The national women’s rights organization, which helped craft the legislation, wrote on its website, “This bill takes procedural steps to write into law common sense definitions that ensure the meaning of words like ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ aren’t corrupted by unelected bureaucrats intent on pushing gender ideology.”
The group stated that members sent more than 600 messages to Kansas lawmakers in support of the bill.
The legislation also had plenty of opposition, with critics calling it anti-trans and reminiscent of racial segregation in the 1960s.
“It’s the same sayings,” state Rep. John Alcala (D-Topeka) said at a public hearing on the bill. “I don’t want you in my bathroom. I don’t want you drinking out of my water fountain. I don’t want you over at my house. I don’t want my kid hanging out with you.”
Beth Oller, a physician who testified against the bill, said the title was inappropriate and violated women’s rights. “This is [in] no way a women’s bill of rights. The bill does the opposite of protecting women; it causes harm.”
Oller said that medical doctors “for decades have agreed that there is no sufficient way to define what makes a woman.”
“Gender is not binary but is a spectrum of biological, mental, and emotional traits that exist along a continuum,” she said. “Intersex people exist.”
The bill does include a provision that recognizes intersexual individuals. “Individuals born with a medically verifiable diagnosis of disorder/differences in sex development are to be provided available federal and state legal protections,” the legislation states.
Opposition to SB 180 also came from the Kansas School Superintendents’ Association, the United School Administrators of Kansas, and Kansas Legal Services.
There should be NO NEED for such a law!
Having to write a such a law which defines a scientific truth we have known since the beginning of time only demonstrates how far from reality our society has become since it has rejected God.
This also illustrates WHY an immoral society is incapable of self governance.
The problem is not a deficiency in the law, it is a deficiency in our courtrooms!
A law saying reality trumps delusion. Excellent.
RE: A law saying reality trumps delusion.
We are in a sad state when we even need a law for this.
I’m torn between “Everything that was scheduled to happen in Kansas that involves an outside company will be canceled” with “The dems will have to pile in to get control of the government to reverse this”
vs.
“It’s Kansas, no one cares”.
I know the left can’t tolerate ANY differing opinions, so that makes me think they’ll have to do SOMETHING.
“There should be NO NEED for such a law!”
Amen to that! What a colossal waste of our legislator’s time! Crime out of control, border out of control, cities crumbling, government spending out of control and THIS is what we are reduced to in our legislatures — legally defining the obvious.
It’s a deficiency in our common sense.
👍👍👍👍👍
A woman under title 9 for sports and such purposes has to be a biological women sexed at birth as female who goes through female puberty.
Are there edge cases of people who feel they are one way or another? Yes but that has nothing to do with the situation title ix was meant to address.
Transgender women are not biological women and have an unfair advantage that discriminates against women who are born female and mature into women. Doesn’t matter if I feel deep inside I’m a black female gospel singer but turn out to be a tone deaf white male in object terms (I’m really neither). Not everything can be defined in relative terms or nothing matters, there’s no foundational concepts to relate to one another with and orderly society crumbles.
When you attack the foundations of how human being can recognize and relate to one another you are in for chaos and anarchy.
Excellent summation. Thank you.
Also, you had said "A woman under title 9 for sports and such purposes has to be a biological women sexed at birth as female who goes through female puberty." The use of "sexed" in this context is similar to that of the practice of poultry graders determining the sex of chicks, "to discover if an animal is male or female." You don't hear it used here in the U.S. outside of the context of animal husbandry.
Women have ovaries. Men have prostates. End of discussion.
Good old farm boys have common sense
So, we need laws to show that we are male or female? Wow, just Wow!
Give ‘em a test. If they have two X chromosomes then they are a girl. If they have an X and a Y chromosome then they are a boy.
Follow the science.
San Francisco & Gomorrah. The Movie.
Beth Oller states: Medical doctors “for decades have agreed that there is no sufficient way to define what makes a woman.”
That’s a bizarre statement at best and any doctor that agrees with this should have their license revoked permanently. They obviously failed basic biology.
“Gender is not binary but is a spectrum of biological, mental, and emotional traits that exist along a continuum,”
Reality:
“Gender is binary not a spectrum of biological, mental, and emotional traits that exist along a continuum.”
laws are for people to depraved to see right and wrong. We are a nation of depravity.
“We are in a sad state when we even need a law for this.”
When you look at very poor quality of judges being pushed forward by the current administration its easy to see why this is needed. Most of them couldn’t tie their shoes, much less cite the Constitution.
Kansas was a battleground state leading up to the Civil War/War Between the States. Kansas, Bloody Kansas they caller her.
This ‘law’ was written by the Department of Redundancy Department.
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