Several Kansas Republican lawmakers called Gov. Laura Kelly’s decision overly partisan and vowed to override her veto of the measure that would prevent state funds from being used to

Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's first veto of 2025 is a bill from the Republican-led Legislature that would ban gender-affirming care for kids.

The governor's devotion to extreme left-wing ideology knows no bounds, vetoing a bipartisan bill that prevents the mutilation of minors. The Senate stands firmly on the side of protecting Kansas children and will swiftly override her veto before the ink from her pen is dry. #ksleg pic.twitter.com/bceVn9mnce

Kansas' Democrat Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a measure that would prohibit the provision of body-mutilating sex-change surgeries and hormone drugs to trans-identified minors.

Senate Bill 63 would prohibit health care providers from rendering gender-affirming care, including puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and encouragement to socially tr

Senate Bill 63, known to Republican supporters as the “Help Not Harm Act,” sought to ban gender affirming care for minors who suffer from gender dysphoria and would have allowed for civil action to be taken against healthcare workers who provided such care to young people under age 18. Kelly vetoed a similar bill last session.

The Democratic governor in Kansas has vetoed a proposed Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Kansas lawmakers are poised next week to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D-KS) veto of a bill that would prohibit transgender medical treatments for minors. On Tuesday, Kelly vetoed the Help Not Harm Act,