The Kansas Legislature Friday approved a bill that expands restrictions on gender-related healthcare for minors and allows legal action against doctors who would have their medical licenses revoked for providing gender reassignment surgeries.
SB 26, also known as the Kansas Child Mutilation Prevention Act, opens the door for civil lawsuits against physicians who perform the surgeries on children, with an exception for procedures to correct medically verifiable disorders related sexual development.
The Republican-controlled House voted 70-52 to pass the bill, which would ban hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery on children, while empowering the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts to revoke the medical license of any physician who breaks the law.
Following the House vote, the Senate immediately passed the measure 23-12.
It was the third time in recent weeks that Kansas lawmakers passed a bill to regulate transgender care, as actions to restrict LGBTQ access to healthcare are being considered in GOP-led legislatures across the country.
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