MELISSA HELLMANN, Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate is considering a resolution condemning a recent Obama administration decree that public schools allow transgender students to use restrooms that match their gender identity, not their sex at birth.
Opponents say the measure is a distraction on the last day of the annual session.
The nonbinding resolution comes less than a week after the state Supreme Court ruled that legislators failed to equitably fund public schools. Justices threatened to keep public schools from opening in August if legislators don’t pass a measure by June 30 that adequately funds poor school districts.
Equality Kansas, the state’s leading LGBT group, is planning a rally on Wednesday to oppose the resolution. Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, says legislators should focus on the school funding formula instead.