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Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, said the organization is engaged in emphasizing students’ rights to privacy and protection from harassment under civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution.

Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, said Republican lawmakers had disregarded medical professionals, transgender youth and their families in voting to override Kelly’s veto.

In a joint press release, Loud Light, the ACLU of Kansas, Kansas Interfaith Action and several other pro-LGBTQ+ rights groups condemned the veto override and vowed to connect trans youth and their families with the resources they will need to continue care elsewhere.

D.C. Hiegert, a legal fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, said GOP lawmakers are out of step with most Kansans on the issue. “It's just really frustrating to see a small amount of people in power continually introduce bills that target this community that has done nothing wrong,

"There are millions of people whose parents and grandparents were born in this country but born of immigrant parents," Kubic said. "So, the citizenship of millions and millions more people could be endangered."

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas called a proposed constitutional amendment that reforms the state's Supreme Court to directly elect justices a "blatant power grab" in light of past comments from state officials.

On Monday, the ACLU of Kansas called the new proposal a “power grab” by “increasingly radicalized Kansas politicians.”

The director of the Kansas ACLU says more people need to be aware of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's proposal to open a privately-run detention facility in Leavenworth, Kansas.

All told, Missouri lawmakers have filed 32 anti-LGBTQ bills this year, among the most in the nation, according to a database from the American Civil Liberties Union that tracks legislation nationwide.