MT: Zephyr part of national group of lawmakers objecting to riptide of LGBTQ+ 'erasure' legislation
TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas Rep. Brandon Woodard and Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr pushed back Monday against movement among conservative state legislators to erode non-discrimination protections of LGBTQ+ individuals in a quest to “erase” them from public society.
They objected to legislation, anchored in definitions of gender based on reproductive capacity, that included enactment of transgender sports bans, restrictions on gender-affirming medical care, limitations on use of public restrooms, refusal to modify name or gender on birth certificates as well as barriers to amending driver’s licenses or student identification cards that reflected designations made at birth.
The agenda running deep in statehouses of Kansas, Montana, Tennessee and North Dakota was denounced by the Human Rights Campaign leaders who argued weakening of LGBTQ+ rights in employment, housing, health care and education ought to worry every resident of those states.
Woodard, a Lenexa Democrat and among the few gay lawmakers serving in Kansas, said the Republican-led Legislature was narrowly able to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of Senate Bill 180, which advocates labeled the woman’s bill of rights.
The law banned individuals born without the ability to produce eggs for reproduction from using women’s gender-specific areas in prison facilities, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, locker rooms, restrooms and “other areas where biology, safety or privacy are implicated.” Kansas also required
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