This past March, Kansas State Rep. Carolyn Caiharr, a first-term Republican who also serves as a local mayor, visited Edwardsville Elementary in Wyandotte County as a guest judge for their “Read Across America” door decoration contest.
It’s not often that you get to see a politician face-to-face, and Barbara Williams, a paraprofessional staffer who worked in the building, was eager to see her because they’re on opposite sides of the political aisle.
As Caiharr (pronounced KAY-har) walked down the hallway to look at the doors, Williams came up to her and said “Trans rights are human rights” and that “diverting taxpayer [money] to private schools is not right.”
During a conversation we had last night, Williams told me that she did this before the official school day started and before she was contractually obligated to clock in. Caiharr, she added, never acknowledged what she said. No response. No nod. So as they walked down the hallway (in the direction of Williams’ office), she said it again: “Trans rights are human rights.” She said it once more, too. There was never any response from the state representative.
Those seem like fairly innocuous statements.
But according to a lawsuit that Williams filed against the Bonner Springs-Edwardsville Unified School District last month—by herself because she doesn’t have a lawyer—she was fired later that day.
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