US EditionTransgender teens challenge Kansas law banning gender-affirming care for minors
- In February 2025, a lawsuit was brought in Kansas by two transgender adolescents and their families contesting SB 63, a law that prohibits gender-affirming medical care for minors.
- The law was passed by the Kansas legislature in January 2025, overriding Governor Laura Kelly's veto that opposed political interference in medical decisions for children.
- SB 63 bans hormone therapies and puberty blockers for transgender minors but permits these medical interventions for cisgender youth when prescribed for other medically recognized conditions, while imposing license revocation risks on healthcare providers who comply with treatment requests for trans youth.
- The lawsuit alleges SB 63 violates the Kansas Constitution’s equal protection and parental rights guarantees and cites risks of severe suffering due to interrupted medical care in plaintiffs Ryan Roe, 16, and Lily Loe, 13.
- The case highlights ongoing political conflicts over transgender healthcare, with ACLU advocates condemning the law as harmful politician overreach and state officials defending it as protecting children.
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Transgender teens sue Kansas over 'harmful' gender-affirming care ban
Two transgender teens and their parents are suing the state of Kansas over a law that bans gender-affirming care only for youth with gender dysphoria while allowing the same treatments for cisgender youth.The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the ACLU of Kansas on behalf of 16-year-old Ryan Roe and his mother Rebecca Roe, as well as 13-year-old Lily Loe and her mother Lisa Loe, who all opted to use pseudonyms. It…
Transgender teens challenge Kansas law banning gender-affirming care for minors
Two transgender teenagers and their parents are challenging a Kansas law banning gender-affirming care for minors, arguing the measure violates the state constitution and “is actively harming Kansas families” in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in a state district court.
The next front in the gender wars
April’s Supreme Court judgment ought to have been the final nail in the coffin for transgender ideology. The belief that you can pick your gender, like you would a hat in the morning, seemed to have ended. The highest court unanimously confirmed that for the purposes of the Equality Act, sex is biological – immutable,
Kansas trans kids file lawsuit over new law banning gender-affirming care • Kansas Reflector
Kansans rally in support of transgender rights May 5, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)TOPEKA — Two transgender teenagers and their parents are challenging a new Kansas law that bans gender-affirming care for minors. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and the national ACLU filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Douglas County District Court on behalf of a 16-year-old trans boy and a 13-year-old trans girl. The l…
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