Kansas passes trans bathroom bill Arkansas OKs own version

Kansas state Sens. Elaine Bowers, R-Concordia, and Rob Olson, R-Olathe, confer during the Senate session ahead of a vote on a transgender bathroom bill, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The measure would prevent transgender people from using facilities associated with their gender identities, including bathrooms, locker rooms, domestic violence shelters and prisons. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill to impose some of the nation’s broadest bathroom restrictions and ban transgender people from changing the name or gender on their driver’s licenses cleared the Legislature by margins Tuesday that suggest backers could override the Democratic…