The upside-down KS Legislature

"The 2021 Kansas Legislature is Upside-Down-land, filled with lawmakers who focus their attention on non-problems, while purposefully ignoring the state’s real issues."

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Opinion

March 19, 2021 - 11:25 AM

“Once there lived an Upside-Down, who was the talk of all the town.

If he was told to turn to right, he turned left out of spite.”

— Alexander Kushner, 

Russian poet

The 2021 Kansas Legislature is Upside-Down-land, filled with lawmakers who focus their attention on non-problems, while purposefully ignoring the state’s real issues.

Reflecting the nutty fixation of Senator Roger Marshall, statehouse Republicans have focused immense attention on the burning question of whether Kansas transgender female athletes, perhaps five in total, should be able to compete in women’s sports.  As with many other states’ partisans, Kansas Republicans studiously avoid important issues  by obsessing on the bright shiny object of transgendered students, who are among the state’s most vulnerable citizens.

In passing an anti-trans athletes measure through an “emergency” (sic) process, Kansas risks the fate of states experiencing boycotts after passing such bills, including North Carolina’s misguided “bathroom bill” that lost that state more than $400 million in events revenues.

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