US states move to uphold biological sex in encouraging new laws

Kansas has become one of the latest US states to embed the reality of biological sex into law.

Senate Bill 180, which was initially blocked by Governor Laura Kelly, went on to obtain enough votes from the state’s legislature to enable it to become enacted. The law now explicitly states that “sex” refers to a man or woman’s biological sex and allows areas such as rape crisis centres, prisons and toilets to only admit women.

However, the legislature narrowly failed to override a veto on proposals to protect gender-confused children from puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and ‘sex swap’ surgery.

‘Lifelong consequences’

Elsewhere in the US, a number of other states have also attempted to pass laws to uphold the reality of biological sex and to guard against the dangers of radical gender ideology.

In North Dakota, a new law protects under-18s from undergoing irreversible surgery, taking puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones “for the purpose of changing or affirming the minor’s perception” of a ‘gender identity’ which contradicts their biological sex.

President of the American Principles Project Terry Schilling commented that “it is encouraging to see so many states now taking action”.

He explained that “for years now, ideologically captured medical practitioners have been offering dangerous, experimental drugs and procedures to vulnerable individuals in mental distress”, while children are “far too young to comprehend the lifelong consequences of sterilizing and mutilating their bodies”.

‘Immutable’

The US state of Idaho has affirmed that there are “real and inherent physical differences between men and women” and that “sex” refers to the “immutable biological and physiological characteristics” defined at conception.

Senate Bill 1100 informs schools that any multi-use changing rooms or toilets “must be designated for use by male persons only or female persons only and used only by members of that sex”.

It highlighted that such provision is a “long-standing and widespread practice protected by federal law, state law, and case law”, which protects children from the increased danger of sexual assault and rape in mixed-sex facilities.