Kansas Passes Controversial Bathroom and Tax Laws Despite Governor's Veto

Kansas has passed a new law that prevents transgender people from using restrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identities. The law, which will take effect on 1 July, applies to locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters, and rape crisis centers. The legislation comes as conservative states across the US crackdown on trans rights with extreme laws restricting bathroom access and banning gender-affirming care to minors, and severely restricting such treatment for adults. Critics believe that the new law is an attempt to legally erase trans people and will prompt harassment of trans people as well as nonbinary, gender-fluid and gender-nonconforming people.