University of Kansas threatens transgender employee over bathroom usehttps://www.advocate.com/politics/states/kansas-university-transgender-bathroom-warning 🔗Jacob Ogles (15 July 2026)
University of Kansas officials threatened disciplinary action against a transgender employee for using the women's restroom on campus.
Janitor Siobhán Kirchstein told The Lawrence Times that she had been reported for violating Kansas's strict bathroom law, which activists have described as the most aggressive anti-trans law in the country. The initial email to Kirchstein served as a warning that using a restroom designated for a sex other than the one assigned to an individual at birth now violated the law.
School officials declined to discuss the matter with the newspaper.
The university said it had received a complaint about Kirchstein using a women's restroom in Parker Hall. Kirchstein said she does not work in an area with single-stall restrooms available to all genders. She has used the women's restroom on campus for years without incident, she told the newspaper, and has no intention of complying with the law.
"I'll stay until they basically fire me," Kirchstein said. "If that's what they want to do, that's what I'll do. But I have no intention of complying. No intention at all."
