Overview

• Kansas legislators imposed a broad anti-transgender bathroom law, overriding a veto by the Democratic governor.
• The law applies to restrooms, locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers.
• It legally defines male and female based solely on a person’s reproductive anatomy at birth.
• The law is part of a nationwide Republican effort to rollback LGBTQ rights, particularly those of transgender people.
• Critics argue the law aims to legally erase transgender people and fails to recognize those who are gender fluid, gender nonconforming or nonbinary.