Kansas Passed a Law in Favor of Examing Kids’ Genitals
The shitstate of Kansas has weaponized transphobia as an excuse to make it legal to examine the genitals of school kids.
Remember this whenever someone from Kansas smugly claims, “Kansas is a great place to raise kids!” Newsflash: it isn’t. It’s a great place to geta way with abusing kids, especially if they’re not cishet white males.
It doesn’t surprise me that Kansas legally enables sexual predators and pedophiles. No matter how often heterosexual groomers project their grooming onto us, it will never magically transfer.
Passing a law that enables rapists and pedophiles strikes me as very… Kansas. My mother was from Bigotville (Topeka), and an uncle whom I remember seeing at family reunions in Kansas — as in, he wasn’t banned from family reunions — raped my mother and three of her sisters when they were children. He could have done it many times.
Boys gang-raped her when she was fourteen.
During the time that I dwelled in Bigotville, Kansas in my thirties — only because I could live in…