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she/her 🌾🌻🌾 funemployed :)

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

In the meantime, YOU CAN STILL CHANGE YOUR GENDER MARKER ON YOUR KANSAS BIRTH CERTIFICATE. Here's Kansas Legal Services' How-To Guide: https://t.co/yBzQggR6Ru

[Loud Light @loud_light]

Check out this panel featuring our Lawrence\Topeka organizer @donnavan_dillon with No SB180 and ECM KU NEXT Wednesday 🚨🗣️

This panel covers current and historical anti-trans legislation including Kansas’ SB180 so come make some community, eat, and learn more 👁️👁️ #ksleg #kansas

[Loud Light @loud_light]

🚨SB180 GOES INTO 🚨
🚨EFFECT JULY 1ST🚨
SB 180 was passed by the #ksleg to exclude transgender people, intersex people, and more accessing spaces such as domestic violence shelters, restrooms, etc.
COME TO OUR INSTA LIVE TO LEARN MORE! #kansas

[Davis Hammet @Davis_Hammet]

🎉 Dale Ho has been confirmed as the newest Federal District Judge in New York! 🎉
In 2018, I watched the Fish v. Kobach trial where Ho proved that Kris Kobach was running a voter suppression scheme that unconstitutionally disenfranchised tens of thousands of Kansans.
#ksleg

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

@TaylorOSoule omg love this!

[ACLU of Kansas @aclukansas]

New Legislation takes effect on July 1 that could make it harder to change the gender markers on your government IDs.

Here's a breakdown of what you need to know.

You can find @KLSforkansas resources at https://t.co/RIi45MccRW.

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

Three cheers to @KMUW for this story on landlord Lew McGinnis. Nearly 1/3 of evictions in Kansas are filed in Sedgwick County. Of those, 1/4 are filed by companies controlled by ONE GUY. And as the story tells it, those apartments are not in good shape.
https://t.co/OwAgEksiC9

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

It is good work, it is hard work, I am heartbroken, I am glad to be doing it. I’m probably getting too morose for social media. Mostly, I keep thinking about Kushner. “And I bless you: More Life.” The Great Work Continues.

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

Finally, fully went hoarse after the sixth gender marker presentation in two weeks. Almost 100 people attended the Lawrence presentation yesterday, a wonderful crowd that spilled out onto the sidewalk still asking questions and sharing cards after the library closed.

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

I say “we” because, in those four years, I’ve come to be a part of a weird, huge, wonderful community of folks fighting for trans rights in KS. Texting, slacking, sending emails all day. Venmo’ing each other money to buy stamps and diapers for people who need them.

[The Lawrence Times @LawrenceKSTimes]

The @lawrencelibrary is teaming up with @KLSforkansas to hold a free clinic Wednesday to help transgender people get their gender markers changed on their Kansas birth certificates and IDs before new anti-trans legislation goes into effect.
https://t.co/uFaSXeWi1p

[Isidro Marino @theisidromarino]

Kansas Gender Marker Change Workshop with Attorney Lara Crow.

Hosted by the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas.

Date: Friday, May 19, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: Great Plains Maker Space
2308 N Third St, Garden City, Kansas

GARDEN CITY, KANSAS! #ksleg #LGBTQ

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

GARDEN CITY / SWKS: The LGBTQ Foundation of KS is hosting a Gender Marker Clinic in person in Garden City on May 19th, at 1PM.

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

‼️We're hosting (at least!) four gender marker clinics in the next three weeks! ‼️

Here's a thread of when, where, and how you can learn to change your gender marker on a KS birth certificate or drivers license:⬇️

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

WICHITA: The Center of Wichita is hosting a gender marker and name change clinic this Saturday, May 13th. Here's a link to the FB event: https://t.co/GjIb3DH1Ri

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

@KansasEquality KS residents OR people born in KS!

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

@Judge_Leben Thanks, Prof. Leben 🙂

[Ellen Bertels @eceb2019]

If you would have told me 6 years ago that I would be a lawyer living in Wichita who wears jeans to TV interviews about her deeply weird /good job, I absolutely would not have believed you. No chance.