by Equality Kansas News | June 6, 2020
June typically marks the start of Pride celebrations across the globe; a celebration that has its origins in a New York City riot. Celebrations this month look very different with COVID-19. It is also impossible to find a celebratory tone with the racial injustice and...
by Equality Kansas News | March 11, 2020
UPDATE: Because of the COVID-19 emergency, the Kansas Legislature will be adjourning early. Our hearing has been cancelled. We’ll work for a new hearing next year. We have finally won the right to a hearing on our statewide non-discrimination bill. The House...
by Equality Kansas News | February 25, 2020
This week we may see an attempt to pull the Senate’s Medicaid expansion bill out of committee. We OPPOSE that bill as it’s been amended. As amended by the Senate Health committee, the Medicaid expansion bill has a so-called “conscience”...
by Equality Kansas News | February 7, 2020
Earlier this week, Equality Kansas obtained a draft of a bill that targets transgender middle-school and high-school students. Like many bills being introduced by homophobic, right-wing lawmakers around the country, this bill punishes transgender kids by denying their...
by Equality Kansas News | January 22, 2020
Start End Description Where 9:00 AM 4:00 PM Check-in 2nd Floor Rotunda 9:00 AM 9:30 AM Policy briefing Room 287-N 9:30 AM 10:30 AM Conversion Therapy Bill Intro Room 118-N (Senate Committee on Public Health and Welfare) 10:00 AM 10:30 AM Policy briefing Room 287-N...
