In recent years, Kentucky has made substantial progress in fighting against radical gender ideology. In 2022, the General Assembly passed a Save Girls’ Sports Law (SB 83), which keeps biological men out of girls’ sports. In 2023, the General Assembly passed a ban on gender “transitions” for minors (SB 150), ensuring that children in Kentucky are protected from mutilation. This year, the General Assembly protected your tax dollars from Gov. Beshear’s attempt to pay for gender “transitions” for prisoners and with Medicaid dollars (SB 2 & HB 495). However, an incident at the KY Capitol at the end of last session exposed the continued need for further legislative action.
On March 27, as the General Assembly gathered in the KY Capitol to override the Governor’s vetoes, a large scantily-clad man in a dress, who was at the Capitol to protest SB 2 and HB 495, entered the women’s restroom while several kids were present. Rep. Bill Wesley was informed of the situation and stepped up to the task. When the man exited the women’s restroom, Rep. Wesley confronted him (pictured) and told him to never enter the women’s restroom at the Capitol again. Later speaking at the LGBTQ rally, the man adamantly stated that he would enter the women’s restroom anytime he wanted to, proving the need for a legislative solution.
To address this growing problem, Sen. Lindsey Tichenor has introduced the Women’s Bill of Rights in previous sessions. This important legislation would clearly define the two sexes – male and female – in state law, ensuring that LGBTQ activists cannot hijack the legal definitions of those terms.
Former UK swimmer and Save Girls’ Sports activist Riley Gaines specifically called on the General Assembly to pass this legislation during her keynote address at the Jefferson County GOP’s 2025 Lincoln Dinner.
Rep. Wesley has also committed to filing legislation that bans biological males from entering female private spaces (and vice versa) when those spaces are designed as multiuse spaces. This would ensure that sex-specific shared spaces remain designated exclusively for members of that sex, protecting women and girls from being violated by confused individuals who incorrectly think they can change their sex.
The Family Foundation strongly supports these legislative efforts, and we encourage the General Assembly to follow Riley Gaines’s encouragement to quickly pass these bills. God created every person male or female, and no one can change that reality. Our laws and institutions must reflect this truth by ensuring that they cannot be easily molded into harmful social experiments by LGBTQ activists.
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