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Sep 28, 2022

How transgender hate in governor's race and schools harms Kansas kids - Kansas Reflector

D.C. Hiegert, an American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas legal fellow focusing on LGBTQ issues, and Brenan Riffel, a Kansas Reflector columnist and University of Kansas graduate student, talk with opinion...

Sep 28, 2022

ACLU of Kansas: Legislature needs to fix ‘endless probation’ - Kansas Reflector

“The ACLU is hopeful Ms. Garrett will have her constitutional rights vindicated in the lower court, and that her criminal judge will recognize that continuing Ms. Garrett on state supervision indefinitely...

Kasper Schirer appears before a Kansas Court of Appeals panel to argue against a state law that allows his client’s probation to be extended indefinitely. (Kansas Reflector screen capture from court video)

Sep 26, 2022

Court allows Kansas Two Step case to move forward – North Denver News

The ACLU claimed that the Kansas Two Step is part of a strategy to get drivers to talk to them without a lawyer present. Troopers in both stops and the head of the highway patrol are being sued personally...

Sep 19, 2022

Johnson County school board might ban trans students from using bathrooms they choose

“It is settled law that it is a violation of Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause in the U.S. Constitution to force a transgender student to use a bathroom based off their sex assigned at birth instead...

Sep 18, 2022

'You are putting my friends at risk': Kansas school district's proposed transgender policy sparks division

The Gardner Edgerton School District is considering an anti-trans policy. Ahead of the meeting, the ACLU of Kansas said the policy wasn’t sufficient at providing teachers and staff guidance on how to handle...

The Gardner Edgerton School District is considering a policy that would require students to use the restroom or locker room that corresponds with their “gender assigned at birth.” An earlier policy would have also required students to use the pronouns tha

Sep 9, 2022

Vote now for LGBTQ Nation’s 2022 Hero Protecting the Children

In January 2021, 13 year-old Izzy Dieker was riding home from school in rural Kansas when the driver overheard her tell another student that she’s a lesbian. Dieker stood up for herself and with some help...