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Kansas legislators passed sweeping anti-trans legislation this week that has a religious-right coalition’s fingerprints all over it. On Tuesday, the Republican-led Kansas legislature passed Senate Bill 180—which would make it illegal for trans people to use the bathroom corresponding with their gend

Analysis  Republican lawmakers introduced nearly 70 bills last year to prevent trans kids’ participation on sports teams, arguing that trans girls would have an unfair advantage in competition.

Religious-right fearmongering about the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity protections to federal civil rights laws, has been increasingly extreme around Thursday’s vote in the House of Representatives, which passed the legislation on a 224-206 vote.