Trans Lawrence Coalition

HB 2100 bans investors for the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System (KPERS) from choosing or refusing to invest in a company based off of its pro-trans beliefs. Violation of this law can result in termination and fees. Read more here.

HB 2138 requires students on overnight school trips to use accommodations that align with their assigned sex at birth. Read more here.

HB 2238 bans trans girls & women from participating in women’s sports in schools and colleges. Schools that violate this law are subject to lawsuits and hefty legal fees. Read more here.

SB 180 provides a legal definition of “male” and “female” that erases trans people. It also reiterates the right of the state of Kansas to maintain spaces that are segregated based on assigned sex at birth. Read more here.

SB 228 mandates that county jails must maintain jail cells that are segregated based on assigned sex at birth. Read more here.

SB 63 bans gender-affirming care (GAC) for minors. All health care providers, including mental health care providers, are prohibited from facilitating medical transition or “promoting” social transition, which includes using pronouns that differ from what is socially expected, choosing a different name, or changing manner of dress. Any employee that works for the State of Kansas is also banned from the promotion of social transitioning. Additionally, KanCare and CHIP will not cover any medical expenses related to the GAC of minors. Health care providers who violate this law are subject to lawsuits and the loss of their medical license. Read more here.

SB 125 is the budget bill for Kansas. There is a specific provision in the bill that requires state employees to remove pronouns and anything that promotes “gender ideology” from email signatures. Read more here.

Kansans have been barred from updating gender marker on their birth certificates since 2023.

HB 2203 permits Kansas’ residents “civil right to exercise religion” so long as it doesn’t burdern government interest — including discriminating against LGBTQ+ individuals. Read more here.

Executive Order 15-05 permits clergy to refuse to marry same-sex couples. Read more here.

SB 284 permits child welfare agencies to refuse placing children with LGBTQ+ individuals or couples on religious grounds. Read more here.

HB 2311 prevents the Department of Children and Families from implementing policies that would specifically protect LGBTQ+ foster youth from religious-based homo/transphobia. For example, DCF could not prohibit foster families from putting LGBTQ+ youth through conversion therapy. Read more here.

Executive Order 14168 legally defines trans people out of existence; prohibits the federal government from issuing pro-trans materials; ends federal funding for trans research, healthcare, services; bans gender marker changes on passports; bars trans women from federally-funded women’s shelters; relegates trans people in federal prisons to prisons of their assigned sex at birth; ends gender-affirming care to trans people in federal prisons; and revokes previous policies that protect trans federal employees from discrimination. Read more here.

Executive Order 14183 bans trans people from serving in the US military. Read more here.

Executive Order 14187 ends any federal support or funding for trans healthcare for minors and provides protection for whistleblowers reporting violations. Read more here.

Executive Order 14190 revokes federal funding for and subjects K-12 educational institutions, programs, and employees to legal investigation and prosecution for supporting trans rights or supporting the social transition of a minor. Read more here.

Executive Order 14201 revokes federal funding to educational institutions that permit trans women to play on women’s sports teams. Read more here.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi urged the FBI to offer bounties to identify and arrest pro-trans activists promoting “radical gender ideology.” Her memo labels trans people as domestic terrorists. Read more here.

The Department of Justice has revoked all sections of the Prison Rape Elimination Act that provides guidelines on working with trans and intersex prisoners. Read more here.

S 1071 (the National Defense Authorization Act) is the military budget for October 1, 2025 though September 30, 2026. S 1071 prohibits DEI practices, including programs and resources pertaining to trans people, from being implemented within the US military. Additionally, it bans trans women from women’s sports. Read more here.

HR 5009 (the National Defense Authorization Act) is the military budget for October 1, 2024 though September 30, 2025. HR 5009 prohibited TRICARE from covering trans healthcare “that could result in sterilization” for minors. Read more here.