Kansas passes anti-trans bathroom law.

Kansas legislators have passed a sweeping anti-transgender bathroom law, which applies to locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers. The law legally defines male and female based on a person’s reproductive anatomy at birth and declares that “distinctions between the sexes” in bathrooms and other spaces serve “the important governmental objectives of protecting the health, safety, and privacy.” The law is part of a larger push by Republicans across the U.S. to roll back LGBTQ+ rights, particularly transgender rights. Critics argue that the bill’s vagueness will prompt harassment of transgender people.