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.

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.

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors. That could include puberty blockers, hormone treatment or gender-affirming surgeries for transgender youth.

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’s Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a proposal to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth for the third consecutive year, setting up another battle with the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature that has previously failed to overrule her on the issue.