The state is asking a Douglas County judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a new state law banning surgery and the use of puberty blockers for treating transgender children in Kansas.
Lawyers for the state say the law does not discriminate based on sex and gender but rather makes classifications based on age and medical treatment.
Lawyers from the firm hired to represent the state - the Colorado-based First and Fourteenth - also make their case pointing to the U.S. Supreme Court