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How transgender hate in governor’s race and schools harms Kansas kids
HOSTED BY: CLAY WIRESTONE - September 26, 2022

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Republican Derek Schmidt’s gubernatorial campaign has embraced anti-transgender hate speech, and the Gardner Edgerton School District has entertained a discriminatory policy.

D.C. Hiegert, an American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas legal fellow focusing on LGBTQ issues, and Brenan Riffel, a Kansas Reflector columnist and University of Kansas graduate student, talk with opinion editor Clay Wirestone and reporter Rachel Mipro about the harm this is causing to transgender kids.

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Without asking for it, transgender kids have been swept up into Kansas political imbroglio

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IN THIS EPISODE

D.C. HIEGERT
ACLU of Kansas legal fellow

BRENAN RIFFEL
Kansas Reflector columnist

CLAY WIRESTONE
Kansas Reflector opinion editor

RACHEL MIPRO
Kansas Reflector reporter
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