vetoed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, that barred transgender students from competing in female-designated sports. The State Senate voted to override that veto on Tuesday, but faces a much tougher hurdle in the House of Representatives.Helmer responded to the student in a lengthy email, saying she was a biology major in college and understands “the difference biologically between a male and a woman” and that no “surgeon can cut, remove, wop, add to change the biology that is chemically occurringin each and every fiber, bone and molecule of every human being.”“A doctor can inject meds and dilute but cannot destroy what God has done in the perfection of the HUMAN BEING,” Helmer added. “Now, personally I do not appreciate the huge transgender female who is now in our restrooms in the Capitol.
It is quite uncomforting. I have asked the men if they would like a woman in their restroom and they freaked out.”Helmer’s comments appear to refer to Rep.
Stephanie Byers (D-Wichita), the state’s first transgender lawmaker and the first transgender Native American elected to a state legislature in the country, who was first elected in 2020.Helmer then claimed, in her letter to Riffel, that children are regularly and often being attacked by transgender people in bathrooms across America.“We as women have humans that are much larger, stronger, more adrenaline and testosterone and therefore possibly more dangerous and we have to share our restrooms,” Helmer wrote. “Not only that but our wee little girls in elementary and middle and high school are having to be exposed and many have been raped, sodomized and beaten in the restrooms by these supposedly transgenders who may or may not be for real.”Speaking with The Topeka Capital-Journal,.