Jane Migliara Brigham reporting for The Needle News (“Head of Trans Liberty uses Kansas Capitol bathroom in defiance of new law”):

On Trans Day of Visibility, Samantha Boucher traveled to Kansas with one purpose: to piss in a public bathroom.

It wasn’t just any bathroom. This was at the state capital, where only a few weeks ago, the legislature voted to ban trans people like her from using the correct bathrooms.

The Kansas law is one of the most regressive transgender bathroom laws in the country, criminalizing the use of bathrooms consistent with one’s gender identity, with “bounty-style lawsuits” that can be filed by anyone who believes “they’ve shared a bathroom with a transgender person.” (Similar laws exist in Idaho, Utah, and Florida.) It also retroactively voids all corrected driver’s license and birth certificates, affecting a transgender person’s ability to legally drive, fly, and vote.

Her organization, Trans Liberty, put out an evacuation order for trans people in the state last month, telling them to leave as soon as possible. The reason is that SB 244 effectively rendered trans Kansans undocumented, with no means to prove their identity.

To that end, they are putting their money where their mouth is. To assist in this, the organization has started Operation Lifeboat, a program to evacuate trans people from Kansas.

Words fail me. Absolutely appalling.