Trans youth sports bill veto sustained!
By a vote yesterday of 81 to 41, the Kansas House of Representatives sustained the veto of this year’s attempt to erase trans and gender non-conforming students. Yesterday’s action follows the Kansas Senate’s Tuesday vote of 28-10 to override...
ACTION NECESSARY: Lawmaker bullying of trans kids resumes Monday, March 21
On Monday, March 21, the Kansas Senate is likely to take up SB 484, this year’s attack on trans youth. Like previous years’ anti-trans bills we have successfully worked to defeat (so-called “bathroom” bills, sports and activities bills every...
Anti-trans bill is back. Statehouse rally and committee hearing on Monday, March 7
Late Tuesday, the Kansas state Senate Committee on Education scheduled a hearing on SB 484 for Monday, March 7, at 1:30pm. SB 484 is a slimmed‑down repeat of last year’s SB 208, which seeks to ban transgender and gender non‑conforming children from participating in...
EQKS chairman joins lawsuit over gerrymandered redistricting map
Tom Alonzo, Equality Kansas state board chairman, has joined ACLU in their lawsuit against the Kansas legislature’s gerrymandered congressional map. The map, known as “Ad Astra 2,” splits Wyandotte County along the Interstate 70 corridor through...