Republican legislators in Kansas have approved a proposal to end gender-affirming care for transgender youth
requiring the state's medical board to revoke the licenses of doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors, even though many professionals who deal with transgender youth see such care as vital to preserving their mental health and preventing suicides. The Senate then voted 23-12 to approve the measure, sending it to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
“This one was a winner because they found it palatable to strip rights from a population that was small and did not affect most of them,” she said in an email Thursday night. “They delude themselves with groupthink so that they can pretend this isn’t about hate but about protection, but we know the truth.”
“We all now children change their minds,” Republican state Rep. Susan Humphries of Wichita said. “How many children know what they want to be when they grow up?” “People are finally getting tired of this push toward trying to push our kids in the wrong direction, and I think that this is a pushback from parents, from people who see this as a big problem," said state Sen. Mike Thompson, a conservative, Kansas City-area Republican who backed all of the measures. “For hundreds and hundreds and thousands of years, I think that this has not been a problem. Then all of a sudden it seems like it is.
“You know, the kids are trying to understand who they are and they’re supposed to look to the adults to have that guidance," they added,"and the adults are wanting to say, ‘No, you can’t be that way. No, that’s not right. You’re just confused.’"
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