Republican legislators in Kansas on Thursday enacted a bill to prevent transgender people from using the restrooms associated with their gender identities – over-riding a veto on the measure by the state's Democrat governor.
The measure is among the most the sweeping transgender bathroom law in the U.S., according to the Associated Press.
The over-ride vote was in the House and was preceded by one Wednesday in the Senate.
The House vote was, 84-40, exactly the two-thirds majority they needed to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s action.
The Senate vote was 28-12, and the new law will take effect July 1, the wire service also reports.
At least eight other states have enacted laws preventing transgender people from using restrooms associated with their gender identities but most of them apply to schools, compared to the Kansas law that applies also to locker rooms, prisons, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers.