Kansas

The hate driving Kansas legislators' war on transgender people didn't start in Topeka—and it won't end there either

Hate does not require scale. It’s happy to hurt people in increments. In fact, smaller-scale hate gets a lot of work done by dint of its focused ambitions. It moves quickly. It often goes unnoticed. Working this way, hate cuts deeply into the lives of a relatively small number of people to start, and it gets much of the cutting done before the wider wor…