Stephanie Byers doesn’t pee standing up.
Not that it’s anyone’s business, but if that is alleged about her in a court of law — as a witness alleged last week in Douglas County — she’s going to correct the record.
And while she’s at it, Byers — Kansas’ first openly transgender lawmaker — is going to say this: She is not a threat to any woman in any public restroom anywhere.
“That is ...
When confronted with accusations against him, a 36-year-old Lawrence man told police that he raped and sexually abused a 13-year-old girl earlier this year, according to a recently released affidavit in the case.
The man, Steven Earl Snow, has been charged with two counts of child rape, an off-grid felony punishable by life in prison if he is convicted. Lawrence police announced Snow's arrest in a Sept. 10 news ...
A lobbyist who works at the Statehouse in Topeka testified Friday about two bathroom experiences in the span of five years that made her "uncomfortable," and she expressed gratitude for a new state law that she says will "set a standard in stone" and help shield her from such discomfort going forward.
The woman, who did not use her real name to testify, was put on the stand by Attorney General Kris Kobach and ...
A woman who says she was brutally raped by a stranger more than 17 years ago in Lawrence had likely despaired of ever receiving justice, but she now has hope after never-before-tested evidence in the case was recently examined.
The first investigation into the May 6, 2009, incident hit a dead end when the Kansas Bureau of Investigation tested swabs from the woman's body — taken as part of a hospital rape kit ...
A Kansas father on Thursday testified that he now sends his daughter to a private school after the girl told him that she saw a transgender female entering a restroom at her middle school in Andover.
The daughter was not in the restroom herself but just observed the trans student, whom the dad referred to as a biological male, go in. The sight made his daughter "quite emotional and sad," the father said, and ...
Sex crimes in public bathrooms are not a thing, and neither is a man donning female clothing in order to assault a woman in a public bathroom. That was the upshot of a forensic psychologist's testimony Wednesday in Douglas County District Court.
Dr. Cynthia Calkins, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York who specializes in sex-crime prevention, testified on behalf of transgender and ...
