Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Like any other history, Lawrence’s queer history repeats itself. Reflections from leaders in the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1970s and ’80s show how their fight for rights reverberates throughout Lawrence’s transgender community today.
A group of transgender men are protesting by complying with state law, highlighting the confusion caused by the law that requires them to use the women’s restroom in publicly owned facilities.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
A Douglas County judge has temporarily reinstated a Lawrence transgender woman and Army veteran’s license that was invalidated by an anti-transgender state law.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
O’Connell Children’s Shelter hosted a ribbon cutting Tuesday for a family service center, which staff said will offer wraparound services and three beds for kids in crisis.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
A transgender woman who works at KU was notified Friday that she had been reported for using the women’s restroom.
Kansas’ latest “bathroom bill” is sending a message to transgender people: You have overstayed your welcome. Some folks in Lawrence are on their way out.
Pivotal court cases challenging laws that have altered the lives of transgender Kansans are approaching turning points, as one moves to a higher court and two others face consolidation.
A Douglas County judge blocked the state from enforcing portions of a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, allowing transgender kids in Kansas to undergo hormone therapy and use puberty blockers.
A few spaces are exempt from Kansas’ new bathroom law that requires people to use the facilities in government buildings that match their sex assigned at birth, Attorney General Kris Kobach said in a new opinion.
Republican leaders of the Kansas Legislature relied on an arsenal of parliamentary procedure that frustrated Democrats seething about a bill forcing transgender people to use public bathrooms and obtain driver’s licenses matching their sex assigned at birth.
