States can pass effective laws defining gender as biological sex, protecting women and girls by keeping men out of women’s spaces. 

From The Epoch Times. Kansas has become the first state to adopt a definition of gender with the passage of legislation that keeps men, no matter what gender they identify as, out of women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and other intimate spaces. …

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The move came late in the afternoon of April 27, when the state Legislature voted to override Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of S.B. 180, which became known as the “Women’s Bill of Rights.”

Under it, a female is defined as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova.” A male is defined as “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female.”

It also defines gender words calling for “woman” and “girl” to be used to refer to human females and “man” and “boy” to refer to human males. It defines “mother” as a parent of the female sex and “father” as a parent of the male sex. …

Opposition Forces

The legislation also had plenty of opposition, with critics calling it anti-trans and reminiscent of racial segregation in the 1960s.

“It’s the same sayings,” state Rep. John Alcala (D-Topeka) said at a public hearing on the bill. “I don’t want you in my bathroom. I don’t want you drinking out of my water fountain. I don’t want you over at my house. I don’t want my kid hanging out with you.”

Beth Oller, a physician who testified against the bill, said the title was inappropriate and violated women’s rights. “This is [in] no way a women’s bill of rights. The bill does the opposite of protecting women; it causes harm.”

Oller said that medical doctors “for decades have agreed that there is no sufficient way to define what makes a woman.” …

Female Spaces in Danger

Following public testimony against the bill by Rev. Carolene Dean, an associate pastor with the Plymouth Congregational Church, an attorney for WOLF asked whether Dean, a female, “had ever been unfortunate enough to find herself in a domestic violence shelter, rape crisis counseling, or a women’s prison.”

Attorney Lauren Bone said that with many states now opening such places up to men, women are at “increased risk of further violence and harassment.” …

Similar gender-defining bills to the one passed in Kansas are pending in other states, including Oklahoma and Montana.

Nationwide, there have been a number of reports of assaults on women by men identifying as women. …

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Tim Mossholder on Unsplash)