(March 6, 2023) - Today the House Health and Human Services Committee held a hearing on Senate Bill 180, establishing the women’s bill of rights to provide a meaning of biological sex for purposes of statutory construction. 

The committee heard from opponents first:
Dr. Beth Oller
Laura Crow, Private Citizen
Tammy Quale, Private Citizen
Jay Bohanan, Private Citizen
Ellen Bertels, Kansas Legal Services
Caroline Dean, Kansas Interfaith Action
Susan Wheeler, LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce
Eileen Bergquist, ACLU Kansas
Teran Jones, Equality Kansas
Jerry Henn, United School Administrators
Michelle McCormick, KS Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence
Barbara Williams, Private Citizen

Proponents appearing before the committee were:
Riley Yates, Independent Women’s Voice
Hadley Health Manning, Independent Women’s Voice
Lauren Bowen, Women’s Liberation Front

The committee will meet again tomorrow, March 7.