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Kansas Lawmakers Pass Bill Defining Woman

Kansas Lawmakers Pass Bill Defining Woman
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly gives her inaugural address for her second four-year term on the south steps of the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., on Jan. 9, 2023. John Hanna/AP Photo
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
Reporter
4/5/2023|Updated: 4/5/2023
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Kansas lawmakers voted Tuesday to pass a bill defining what it means to be a woman, forwarding it to the Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk Tuesday.

The Republican-controlled Senate passed the Women’s Bill of Rights in a 28–12 majority vote, with all GOP members voting yes except for one, and all Democrats voting no. The bill’s summary says it is “establishing the women’s bill of rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction.” The bill comes at a time when partisan divisions have been riling up discussions around the use of terms like gender, sex, male, female, man, and woman.

Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
Reporter
Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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