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The Kansas Supreme Court's decision to reject an appeal from Attorney General Kris Kobach allows the state to resume a process that had been in place for more than 20 years.

The attorney general's office is challenging the validity of a district judge's order that limits how much information PFLAG, a national LGBTQ advocacy group, has to hand over about Texas families seeking gender-affirming care for children.

Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities.

The governor signed Texas' Senate Bill 8 into law on Monday. The so-called "bathroom bill" prohibits people in many publicly owned spaces from using restrooms that don't align with the sex listed on their birth certificate. LGBTQ+ groups and advocates are calling the measure another attack on transgender Texans.

One of the nation's first doctors accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found to have not violated the law, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office says, nearly a year after the state sued the physician.

Senate Bill 8, which now heads to the House floor, would restrict which bathrooms in government buildings transgender people would be allowed to use.

A federal appeals court has upheld an Oklahoma law prohibiting minors from accessing gender-affirming care, reinforcing a growing trend of legal support for such bans across the country.

The bills would carry a $5,000 fine for a first-time violation and comes as momentum for such restrictions has increased in the state and nationally.

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.

Attorney General Kris Kobach instructed the Kansas Department of Revenue, which houses the division of motor vehicles, not to make gender marker changes while the issue is in litigation.