Another blow for trans people’s rights in the United States. After a fierce legal battle that saw Republican lawmakers override the Democratic governor’s veto, the state of Kansas has enacted a new transphobia law, which will go into effect July 1.
The provision, whose application conditions remain unclear, plans, among other things, to limit access to public toilets for trans people.
Always the same arguments
Kansas thus becomes the 9th state to ban trans people from using restrooms of the gender of their choice. If elsewhere, the law mainly affects schools, Kansas plans to apply it to locker rooms, prisons, shelters for victims of domestic violence and even at shelters for rape victims.
Republicans aren’t changing the record: They said they only address concerns about shared spaces between trans and cisgender women. In a vacuum, the argument that transidentity is only a “perverse strategy” to approach (and therefore attack) cis women takes shape. This new law adds to the long list of violations of the rights of trans people identified across the country in recent months.
The text of the law also requires a a definition that will have to replace a regulatory framework of the State in the futureconcerning what it is designated as “masculine gender” and “feminine gender”. Evocation biological argumentsthe text indicates that the reproductive system at birth must be the determining factor, as specified in the art Keeperwhich denounces a ” attempt to legally deny the existence of trans people “.
Source: Madmoizelle
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