All posts tagged "kansas"
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Republican lawmaker who allegedly kicked student in balls during antigay tirade avoids jail
Republican Rep. Mark Samsel received a suspended sentence after being accused of assaulting a child during a rant about same-sex parents
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Foo Fighters trolled anti-gay Westboro Baptist protesters with disco music
Foo Fighters' front man Dave Grohl told hate group Westboro Baptist Church, "You shouldn't be hating...you should be dancing!"
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Uber Eats apologizes after being accused of outing trans drivers to customers
The company will no longer require transgender drivers to display their legal names, potentially outing them to customers
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Kansas Republicans trying to ram through trans athlete ban in athlete compensation bill
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) blasted an attempt by Republican lawmakers to attach a provision barring transgender athletes from sports teams aligning with their gender...
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Kansas Republicans fail to override governor’s veto of transgender athlete bill
Kansas Republicans failed to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's veto of a measure to bar transgender athletes from women's sports.
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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly vetoes bill seeking to bar transgender athletes from sports
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill seeking to ban transgender athletes from competing in sports under the guise of "fairness."
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Kansas school bans student from bus for saying she’s lesbian
Eight-grader Izzy Dieker said her "whole class" knows she is a lesbian, but she was still banned from riding the school bus
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Three Kansas Republicans resort to anti-transgender attacks in U.S. Senate race
Attacks come in wake of Supreme Court's decision finding that LGBTQ employees are protected by the Civil Rights Act
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Kansas will allow transgender people to change the gender marker on their birth certificates
Consent judgment allows transgender people to change their gender marker without surgery or a court order
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Newly-elected Democratic Kansas governor seeks to block anti-gay adoption law
State's largest LGBTQ organization believes law is unconstitutional, and will be introducing a repeal bill in January
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Kansas Governor-Elect Laura Kelly will bring back protections for LGBTQ state employees
Kelly will reinstate an executive order that anti-LGBTQ former Gov. Sam Brownback revoked in 2015
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Transgender Kansas residents sue state over birth certificate policy
Kansas is one of only three states that categorically denies any gender marker change on birth certificates
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Study: 78,000 transgender Americans could be prevented from voting in 2018
A new study estimates that approximately 78,000 transgender people in eight crucial states will be eligible to vote in the upcoming 2018 elections, but will...
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LGBTQ Native American woman wins Democratic primary in Kansas
Sharice Davids emerged from a crowded primary field to win with 37% of the vote
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Kansas City, Kansas, passes ordinance protecting LGBTQ residents
An estimated 225 cities or counties across the nation have LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections in place
