As State Restricts IDs and Bathrooms, Some Trans Kansans Think of Leaving

Anthony Alvarez loves Kansas.

He moved there when he was 11, and now “every single person he cares about” and loves is in the Midwestern state, he tells TIME.

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But lately, Alvarez says, he and his friends are thinking of leaving.

Alvarez, a 21-year-old who will graduate from the University of Kansas this spring, came out as trans 6 years ago, and says the average Kansan has never bothered him about his gender. On campus, he walks into...