Kansas bans changing gender on birth certificates after creating legal definition of 'female'

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Kansas has prohibited the change of a resident's gender on the residen'ts birth certificate after a legal battle between the attorney general and the state's agencies.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach won a lawsuit to stop state agencies such as the Kansas Department of Health and Environment from allowing gender changes on state documents, which was previously allowed for those who believe they are the opposite gender.

The health department is required to comply with the legal victory and posted on its website that "in accordance with Senate Bill (SB) 180, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) can no longer process gender identity amendments to birth certificates."

However, the governing body also noted that those who already changed their gender on their birth certificates do not need to immediately seek new documentation.

"If KDHE previously changed your birth certificate to align with your gender identity, that birth certificate is still valid; however, if a certified copy of that record is requested, then the new copy must reflect the sex assigned at birth."

"The intent of [Kansas legislature] was clear when lawmakers passed the Women’s Bill of Rights. [Kansas] birth certificates are state records that must reflect scientific fact as recorded by the doctor at the time of birth," the attorney general wrote on X.

The intent of #ksleg was clear when lawmakers passed the Women\u2019s Bill of Rights. KS birth certificates are state records that must reflect scientific fact as recorded by the doctor at the time of birth.
— Kris W. Kobach (@Kris W. Kobach) 1694814682

Kansas Senate Bill 180 is the legislation passed in February 2023 that was dubbed the "Women's Bill of Rights." The law declared several official definitions, such as "sex": "an individual’s sex at birth, either male or female."

"A 'female' means an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova," the document stated.

A “male” was defined as "an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to fertilize the ova of a female," while it also stated that a “woman” and “girl” refer to human females.

The law also required that distinctions between the sexes be made clear for athletics, prisons, locker rooms, restrooms, and "other areas where biology, safety, or privacy are implicated that result in separate accommodations."

In April 2023, Democrat Governor Laura Kelly officially issued a veto of the bill and said that it was an economic move.

"Companies have made it clear that they are not interested in doing business with states that discriminate against workers and their families," the governor stated.

"By stripping away rights from Kansans and opening the state up to expensive and unnecessary lawsuits, these bills would hurt our ability to continue breaking economic records and landing new business deals."

However, the Republican-controlled legislature overrode her veto and caused the law to go into effect on July 1, 2023.

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Armed Antifa militants guard 'kid-friendly' drag show near Dallas; Republican Texas lawmaker calls violent leftist group's intimidation tactics 'alarming'



Masked Antifa militants were armed with rifles as they guarded a "kid-friendly" drag show near Dallas over the weekend — and a Texas Republican lawmaker told Fox News Tuesday that the violent leftist group's intimidation tactics are "alarming."

What's the background?

The Sunday morning "drag brunch" was held at the at Anderson Distillery and Grill in Roanoke, Fox News said.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales and porducer Kris Cruz, as well as independent journalist Tayler Hansen, were there and posted images and videos to Twitter.

\u201cI was on the outside and it was wild. #Antifa showed as body guards for the attendees of the event. #Antifa and the staff worked together to provide \u201cprotection\u201d\u201d
— Kris Cruz \ud83e\udee1 (@Kris Cruz \ud83e\udee1) 1661720808

Fox News said police were there too amid tense stand-offs between protesters and counter-protesters.

\u201cTo my knowledge and I walked both sides of the arguments. The only armed group I saw was #Antifa. #Antifa also posted \u201cguards\u201d on each corner and inside the parking lot. They took pictures of all the vehicles that not supported the kids friendly drag show.\u201d
— Kris Cruz \ud83e\udee1 (@Kris Cruz \ud83e\udee1) 1661721233

About 20 children and multiple self-proclaimed teachers attended the event where drag queens performed and collected dollar bills, Fox News added, citing video from Hansen. For a more detailed account of what happened inside and outside the venue, check out this clip from Hansen and Gonzales.

What did Slaton have to say?

"It's shocking to a lot of Texans, and we just need to stop it. We need to let children be children and protect them from any sexualization," Republican state Rep. Bryan Slaton told Ashley Strohmier and Todd Piro of "Fox & Friends First."

Slaton told the co-hosts that "kid-friendly drag shows" don't exist, and he said he believes children must be protected in order to have a childhood and must be prevented from being sexualized at a young age.

"We have porn in our school libraries and there's pushback on removing those. There are the drag queen shows with children, and there's pushback on us for wanting to stop that. Then there's the gender modification of children. And the left is pushing back on that," Slaton noted to Fox News.

As for Antifa showing up with weapons to guard the event, Slaton told the Fox News hosts that the radical leftist group's actions are "alarming," particularly as protecttion for "grown men wearing ladies' underwear that have to dance provocatively in front of children."

"They're protecting that and trying to intimidate those that were there to speak out against it and bring attention to it that way," he told Fox News. "But, yes, Antifa apparently is getting involved, and you've crossed the line if you want to protect children, and they want to intimidate you."

Slaton also said it was concerning that law enforcement failed to take action to shut down the event due to it being over capacity according to the local fire code, Fox News added.

Bestselling devotional includes prayer by social justice activist asking God to help her 'hate white people'



A devotional book with a prayer asking God to help the author "hate white people" raised some hackles on social media and the author responded by defending her anti-white prayer.

Screenshots from the book, "A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal," were widely circulated on social media. The book was on the New York Times' bestseller list, according to its Amazon page.

Woke Christianity is a cult. https://t.co/XXJLwNiiGP
— Kris (@Kris)1617638439.0

The controversial passage read:

Dear God, Please help me to hate White people. Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively. I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, that they can stop being racist.

The author of that passage was Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes, who describes herself as "a clinical psychologist, public theologian, and ecumenical minister whose work focuses upon healing the legacies of racial and gender oppression."

Walker-Barnes defended her prayer in a tweet referencing the Psalms from the Bible.

"Apparently a screenshot of my prayer from 'A Rhythm of Prayer' is floating on the socials. The folks critiquing have clearly never read Psalms (other than 23 & 100). Cause then they'd recognize what it's modeled after," she claimed.

Apparently a screenshot of my prayer from “A Rhythm of Prayer” is floating on the socials. The folks critiquing hav… https://t.co/2Y6e3AHZfW
— Dr. Chanequa (@Dr. Chanequa)1617660608.0

Walker-Barnes went on to explain that she wrote that prayer as a response to a white person who had been her friend that used the N-word casually in conversation.

"I took my rage to God in prayer. I owned it. I was truthful to God about what I was struggling with. And I prayed for God not to let anger and hatred overwhelm me," she claimed.

"I prayed to be true to the biblical mandate for peace, justice, & reconciliation even though I don't think it's possible," she added.

In a lecture at TheoEd Talks, Walker-Barnes blamed racism on "pathological whiteness."

"It is becoming more and more obvious that whiteness is a dysfunctional system, that it is a pathology that poses a danger to individual white people, definitely to the well-being of black and other people of color, and it poses a threat to the fabric of our democracy if left unchecked," Walker-Barnes said.

Here's the lecture from TheoEd Talks:

Chanequa Walker-Barnes at TheoEd Talks: Pathological Whitenesswww.youtube.com