Avery Rowland, a transgender woman in small-town Kansas, is running as a Democrat to represent a state legislative district in the bottom-right corner of the state, about two hours south of Kansas City. She wants to bring more highways, hospitals and schools to her rural, deep-red district.

Her race was fairly uneventful, until she got wind of a Kansas Republican Party official questioning her eligibility to vote.

Kansas Reflector, a local news outlet, came to her with records showing that the state GOP treasurer, Roger Lomshek, had called the secretary of state’s office and asked why a new law invalidating transgender Kansans’ licenses wasn’t being applied to voter registration. Specifically, he wanted to know why that law didn’t apply to Rowland and her ability to vote.

Stephanie Byers doesn’t pee standing up. Not that it’s anyone’s business, but if that is alleged about her in a court of law — as a witness alleged last week in Douglas County — she’s going to correct the record.

And while she’s at it, Byers — Kansas’ first openly transgender lawmaker — is going to say this: She is not a threat to any woman in any public restroom anywhere.

In court this week to challenge the state’s driver’s license and restroom restrictions, intersex and transgender Kansans are having to explain some of their social media posts as the state’s defense turns to them as part of its strategy.

As The Advocate has reported, plaintiffs in Doe v. Kansas are seeking to block Senate Bill 244, a sweeping law that invalidated driver’s licenses bearing gender markers that differ from a person’s sex assigned at birth and restricts restroom use in government buildings. The ID requirement has exposed them to scrutiny in ordinary interactions, even after they complied with the law, plaintiffs told The Washington Post.

Roeland Park and Prairie Village recently amended conversion therapy bans both cities had on the books in order to comply with a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Earlier this summer, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sent letters to the two northeast Johnson County cities and Lawrence, giving them 60 days to strike down city laws that ban conversion therapy — the discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity.