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The Texas Legislature passed a measure this year that prohibits the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgery for transgender people under 18.

Kansas SB 180 will bring a host of changes, including limiting trans residents’ access to bathrooms. Much is still unknown about how it'll be enforced.

The bills would prohibit doctors from providing gender-affirming care to children, ban transgender girls from girls' sports and legally define sex as the sex a person is assigned at birth.

Kansas lawmakers are taking aim at gender-affirming care, with a bill trying to create penalties for doctors who carry out the treatments.

Texas Freedom Caucus asked Attorney General Ken Paxton to weigh in on school board association’s guidance for navigating complex issues related to transgender youth.

The newest Kansas Speaks survey shows significant worries among potential voters about the economy along with views that tilt left of the policies of the people that Kansans tend to elect to public office.

The state is appealing the decision by a Texas judge to stop investigations into families of trans youth.

Republicans in the Kansas Legislature this year fell short of overriding Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a measure blocking transgender people from taking part in athletic teams designated for girls or women. Schmidt urged the Legislature to pass the same bill again.

The ACLU and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit on behalf of three families currently under investigation, as well as more than 600 Texas-based members of PFLAG, an advocacy group for LGBTQ+ families.

State legislatures around the country have been trying to prevent transgender girls and women from competing with their peers. How that's playing out in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa depends on politics and people.