This bill is not about bathrooms...yet again! It is about deputizing the public to police bodies, suspend due process, and manufacture fear as a governing strategy.
Kansas Republicans are proposing something extreme even by today’s standards: a state-sanctioned bounty system that invites private citizens to surveil, confront, and sue people over perceived sex, potentially in both public and private spaces. That is not governance. That is legalized vigilantism.
A bill that endangers more than trans people is the unwritten consequence. And from a state that constantly is trying to be the testing ground for policies and regulations that end up hurting its citizens regularly, will, by no surprise, hurt its citizens again!
Why are they so fucking determined to get into someone else's pants?! I swear, someone comes into the bathroom where I am and start questioning ANYONE, and I'm coming after them!
This is absolutely disgusting! What is wrong with these people?? Waking up every morning driven by hatred must be a terrible way to live but what else would be the motivation?
Among many things in the proposed bills, the two year time limit within which civil charges can be filed raises big red flags for me. Two years for right wingers to research the names of folks they may have crossed paths with in the bathroom to see if they are trans. And, as in so many of these bills, cis-gendered non-binary, lesbian, and androgynous folks will also be targeted. We've already seen cases of lesbian women being accused of being trans and assaulted when going to pee.
Thank you, Erin, for your swift and thorough reporting on this issue.
This Kansas state bill would certainly be awful for our community. I hope that if it passes the senate then a veto by governor Kelly would not be overridden.
Do you think that this bill is partly intended to distract republican voters in Kansas from focusing on other Trump and GOP misfires, especially their mcruel and stupid immigration crackdown?
They received so much testimony opposing this from constituents that it disrupted the first hearing--even with less than 24h notice!!--and they still went forward. Absolutely disgusting behavior that Kansans reject.
We have now entered the world of Hitler and the Nazi regeme
Kansas SB 244 Section 1H doesn’t just redefine “gender” — it empowers private citizens to police and report, sue, or punish transgender Kansans for using restrooms and private spaces that match their gender identity.
This means:
Individuals could act like bounty hunters — monitoring bathrooms, locker rooms, and other private spaces and suing people they claim are violating the law.
It could apply broadly, potentially even in private businesses — not just government buildings.
This is state-sanctioned harassment, turning everyday citizens into enforcers in a way that puts transgender people at risk of legal action, discrimination, and public shaming.
This isn’t about “privacy” — it’s about giving anyone the power to target their neighbors and coworkers over who they are.
We can protect privacy and dignity without empowering harassment or lawsuits against transgender
Kansas should be focused on schools, healthcare, and lowering costs — not policing who someone is or where they can go to the bathroom.
Yes!!! And if they get this passed, they will expand it to other states so that private citizens can snitch on anyone who doesn't fit with the regime. They are pushing this at several different points: trans, immigrants, anyone who is not a CN, etc. It always starts this way.
We can't control these right-wing politicians but we can win this war. Between the UK TERF efforts and the U.S. being under Trump, that side feels pretty smug right now. But it's telling how little we've really fought back, yet. We're being wise and taking it a day at a time because it's what it will take to expose how this anti-trans hysteria has failed, is failing people, based in lies and delusions. We're not losing the argument when it comes to telling the truth and having some courage, instead of self-serving rationalizations and unholy alliances with Nazis.
Please remember there is no such thing as a state law which can ever legitimately impair the rights of American citizens. Every single person having anything to do with this can be sued under numerous sections of federal law. Violations of the rights of American sitters under color of law can even carry the death penalty if they result in significant injury or death.
They can also be sued for getting it wrong...
And we already know they not only can't always tell they usually get it wrong...
Can these people find literally anything to do other than being evil?
They have no policies besides funneling money into the hands of the turbo wealthy, so legitimately the answer is no
This bill is not about bathrooms...yet again! It is about deputizing the public to police bodies, suspend due process, and manufacture fear as a governing strategy.
Kansas Republicans are proposing something extreme even by today’s standards: a state-sanctioned bounty system that invites private citizens to surveil, confront, and sue people over perceived sex, potentially in both public and private spaces. That is not governance. That is legalized vigilantism.
A bill that endangers more than trans people is the unwritten consequence. And from a state that constantly is trying to be the testing ground for policies and regulations that end up hurting its citizens regularly, will, by no surprise, hurt its citizens again!
So wait, can men go into women's bathroom to bounty hunt?
Yes, and check genitalia! They have lost their minds!
That is wild
Why are they so fucking determined to get into someone else's pants?! I swear, someone comes into the bathroom where I am and start questioning ANYONE, and I'm coming after them!
This is absolutely disgusting! What is wrong with these people?? Waking up every morning driven by hatred must be a terrible way to live but what else would be the motivation?
In a state like Kansas, it might be their only entertainment. Well, that and tipping cows.
Among many things in the proposed bills, the two year time limit within which civil charges can be filed raises big red flags for me. Two years for right wingers to research the names of folks they may have crossed paths with in the bathroom to see if they are trans. And, as in so many of these bills, cis-gendered non-binary, lesbian, and androgynous folks will also be targeted. We've already seen cases of lesbian women being accused of being trans and assaulted when going to pee.
Thank you, Erin, for your swift and thorough reporting on this issue.
This Kansas state bill would certainly be awful for our community. I hope that if it passes the senate then a veto by governor Kelly would not be overridden.
Do you think that this bill is partly intended to distract republican voters in Kansas from focusing on other Trump and GOP misfires, especially their mcruel and stupid immigration crackdown?
This is just sick! It comes all down to policing women's bodies! Same as in sports! Who is "woman" enough. Its misogyny, its just sick!
What could possibly go wrong with this utterly ridiculous bill?
They received so much testimony opposing this from constituents that it disrupted the first hearing--even with less than 24h notice!!--and they still went forward. Absolutely disgusting behavior that Kansans reject.
We have now entered the world of Hitler and the Nazi regeme
Kansas SB 244 Section 1H doesn’t just redefine “gender” — it empowers private citizens to police and report, sue, or punish transgender Kansans for using restrooms and private spaces that match their gender identity.
This means:
Individuals could act like bounty hunters — monitoring bathrooms, locker rooms, and other private spaces and suing people they claim are violating the law.
It could apply broadly, potentially even in private businesses — not just government buildings.
This is state-sanctioned harassment, turning everyday citizens into enforcers in a way that puts transgender people at risk of legal action, discrimination, and public shaming.
This isn’t about “privacy” — it’s about giving anyone the power to target their neighbors and coworkers over who they are.
We can protect privacy and dignity without empowering harassment or lawsuits against transgender
Kansas should be focused on schools, healthcare, and lowering costs — not policing who someone is or where they can go to the bathroom.
Yes!!! And if they get this passed, they will expand it to other states so that private citizens can snitch on anyone who doesn't fit with the regime. They are pushing this at several different points: trans, immigrants, anyone who is not a CN, etc. It always starts this way.
It already has started
We can't control these right-wing politicians but we can win this war. Between the UK TERF efforts and the U.S. being under Trump, that side feels pretty smug right now. But it's telling how little we've really fought back, yet. We're being wise and taking it a day at a time because it's what it will take to expose how this anti-trans hysteria has failed, is failing people, based in lies and delusions. We're not losing the argument when it comes to telling the truth and having some courage, instead of self-serving rationalizations and unholy alliances with Nazis.
Well that's fucking unhinged.
Soooo what happens when someone inevitably sues a cis woman they think is trans? or a trans man using the womens room (which is what they want)?
Is there some kind of contest going on between certain states on who can enact the most radical anti trans legislation? Sure seems like it at times.
Please remember there is no such thing as a state law which can ever legitimately impair the rights of American citizens. Every single person having anything to do with this can be sued under numerous sections of federal law. Violations of the rights of American sitters under color of law can even carry the death penalty if they result in significant injury or death.
They can also be sued for getting it wrong...
And we already know they not only can't always tell they usually get it wrong...