Kansas AG says schools must out trans kids to their parents — even without a law

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Kansas AG says schools must out trans kids to their parents — even without a law requiring it

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By TRUDY RING FEBRUARY 12 2024 3:41 PM EST in The Advocate

Kansas's far-right Republican attorney general, Kris Kobach, has ordered school districts to out transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming students to their parents, saying that failing to do so is a violation of parental rights.

Kobach is making the move even though Kansas does not have a law requiring this disclosure.

He had written letters last year to six districts that he says allowed students to transition socially without notifying their parents. Two of the districts immediately changed their policies, but four have not, he announced Thursday. The four are Kansas City, Shawnee Mission, Olathe, and Topeka.

"Some schools denied that their policies cut parents out of the picture, but the Attorney General's letters quote the offending language directly from those schools' policies," his announcement says.

He also sent a letter to the Kansas Association of School Boards saying it may have promoted such policies. "Has KASB surrendered to woke gender ideology to the point of jettisoning both propriety and common sense?" he asked in the letter.
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