If the law doesn’t give you what you want, try intimidation.
That’s the reprehensible tactic that our state’s biggest schoolyard bully, Attorney General Kris Kobach, is using in a dangerous attack on transgender children for fun and political profit (his own).
From his elected perch as the “state’s top law-enforcement official,” Kobach sent legal-sounding threatening letters to six Kansas school districts targeted by a D.C.-area pressure group with ties to the Koch Industries political machine.
The letters demand that the districts rescind existing school policies and force their employees to immediately inform parents if their child is “gender non-conforming” at school. Two districts have complied, four are resisting.
In his threat letters, Kobach cites no actual law, because Kansas doesn’t have one.
A bill to do what Kobach wants to do failed last year in committee at the Legislature, most likely because there are enough lawmakers in both parties who recognize the profound and present danger it represents to children.