TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas became the latest state to ban gender-affirming care for minors Tuesday after the Republican-controlled Legislature overrode the Democratic governor's veto of the measure.

Kansas' ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapies for transgender minors takes effect next year. This family is trying to navigate the changes — and give their daughter a normal teen life.

Transgender Kansans and their advocates are bracing for another fight with Republican lawmakers in 2025 over whether trans minors should be allowed access to gender-affirming care. Despite ...

Kansas’s Senate Bill 63 would broadly prevent health care professionals from providing gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery, to minors diagnosed ...

After several years of failed attempts, Kansas Republican lawmakers mustered the votes necessary to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto and force a gender-affirming care ban for minors into law.

Kansas’s GOP Legislature voted Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill to ban gender-affirming care for transgender minors, becoming the 27th state to restrict access ...

Kansas lawmakers will once again debate a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors.

Kansas' Democratic governor on Tuesday vetoed a proposed Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Transgender Kansans and their advocates are bracing for another fight with Republican lawmakers in 2025 over whether trans minors should be allowed access to gender-affirming care. Despite ...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks to reporters following a public event, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas. She has vetoed a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for ...