Republican legislators in Kansas failed Monday to override the Democrat governor's veto of a proposed ban on gender transition care for transgender minors.
The vote was 82-43 in the state House to reverse Gov. Laura Kelly's veto, but that was two votes shy of the necessary two-thirds majority.
Two Republicans who'd backed the bill earlier voted against overriding the veto, citing their concerns about provisions that included one that would have barred state employees from advocating social transitioning for transgender youth.
The House's vote came after the Senate voted 27-13 to override the veto, with the exact two-thirds majority required in that chamber.
Under the bill, social transitioning includes "the changing of an individual's preferred pronouns or manner of dress," and the rule against promoting it would have applied to state workers who care for children. The measure doesn't spell out what constitutes promoting it.
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