As parents, our most important responsibility is keeping our children safe. We lose sleep over fevers and first steps. We worry about friendships, about whether they’ll make the team or get invited to the party.

American advocates for youth gender medicine have insisted for years that overwhelming evidence favors providing gender dysphoric youth with puberty blockers, hormones and, in the case of biological females, surgery to remove their breasts.

A Kansas law invalidating the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed their gender on the documents took effect Thursday. The legislation, Senate Bill 244, requires all Kansans to identify with the same gender as their birth sex on official state documents.