Two transgender teenagers and their parents are challenging a Kansas law banning gender-affirming care for minors, arguing the measure violates the state constitution and “is actively harming Kansas families” in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in a state district court.

Kansas’s Senate Bill 63 prohibits health care providers from administering treatments such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria, characterized by a severe psychological distress that stems from a mismatch between a person’s gender identity and sex at birth.

The bill, passed by the state Legislature in January, includes exceptions for minors born with “a medically verifiable disorder of sex development.” Health care providers who break the law, which also targets social transition, face civil........

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