Morgan Chilson
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812 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 3 Aug
Morgan Chilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And thank you so much.
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Glad to be here.
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So this was a hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee, and it was called less than 24 hours beforehand.
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Despite that, there were still a significant number of people who were able to put in their both proponent and opponent testimony.
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Reportedly, there are 240 opponents to this bill, which not just bans gender markers on driver's licenses they've attempted in the past, a bill that was overturned by this appeals court.
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They are also banning them on birth certificates and taking basically what they're doing is attempting to make gender and sex be equivalent terms in everywhere that it's referred to in Kansas law.
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So despite the short hearing notice, they've got about 240 written comments.
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Those still, as of last evening, did not appear on this website, so they haven't been able to access them, though one of the committee members told me that he could get to them on the drive where they keep just things for legislators.
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So he's been perusing those, and they haven't done a follow-up hearing, or they haven't worked the bill because of that, apparently.
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So, the bill was actually, the first person to testify was Attorney General Chris Kobach, who was the one who lost the appeals court case, and that actually took up quite a bit of time in the hearing, not something that was as much of note in the article that I wrote, but was really interesting because they talked a lot about whether he was able to make the case that it's basically okay to mess with gender markers on driver's license.
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the appeals court found that he did not show irreparable harm.
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Kobach insisted in the hearing that he did show irreparable harm, and afterwards, one of the committee people, Representative John Carmichael, said he's basically
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Covering that up in a way by saying what he did, he did show irreparable harm from his standpoint, but the appeals court found that it was not irreparable harm and Kobach kept insisting that it was it that it really is a problem for the state KBI spokesperson.
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Okay, I'm losing the first name.
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Yeah, they did bring that up during the hearing.
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As I said, that took up quite a bit of the hearing time talking about this court case.
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And KBI came in to speak, and it's their director of policy for Mr. Stewart.
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He came in and spoke about this case and said that it makes a difference to police and law enforcement and medical community.
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We did have a couple of doctors testify in favor of the bill, which is, by the way, I don't think I said the number, HB 2426.
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And they all made the case that it's really imperative that someone knows the biological sex.
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