Kansas Senate Bill 180 seeks to define "female"
Senate Bill 180 was given about 30 minutes of discussion at Wednesday’s Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee hearing, a time frame that critics have said is woefully inadequate to address all the bill’s implications. The bill has been called a women’s bill of rights, a designation that bill opponent Caroline Dean rejected.
Dean, a pastor with the Kansas-Oklahoma Conference of the United Church of Christ, and spokeswoman for the Kansas Interfaith Action, said the bill didn’t actually recognize any rights for women.
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SB 180 would define “female” as people with biological reproductive systems that are developed to produce ova, an definition critics have said excludes intersex women and alienates women without ovaries.
The bill states that separate accommodations based on biological sex aren’t unequal, and that biological women sometimes need women-only social, educational, athletic and other spaces to ensure safety. This would include domestic violence shelters, restrooms and locker rooms.
One part of the bill says that “male individuals are, on average, bigger, stronger and faster than female individuals,” as justification for biology-based separation. Similar legislation has been introduced in North Dakota, Oklahoma and Arizona, among other states.
https://kansasreflector.com/2023/02/15/critics-call-proposed-kansas-womens-bill-of-rights-sexist-transphobic/
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