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 ...
A Douglas County jury on Tuesday found a 64-year-old man guilty of lewd and lascivious behavior after several witnesses testified that the man had publicly masturbated at an apartment complex's swimming pool in the presence of a minor.
Jay Janicke's attorneys from the Public Defenders Office had tried to persuade the jury of six men and six women that Janicke had innocently been "adjusting himself" while he was ...
Four transgender men and one intersex woman on Tuesday told a Douglas County judge how Kansas’ anti-trans law known as SB 244 has negatively impacted their lives - forcing them to surrender their driver’s licenses, to problematically use certain bathrooms, to live in fear of being outed and to generally feel like second-class citizens.
The plaintiffs, who are suing the State of Kansas, variously described ...
