A state-court judge has ordered Kansas to stop allowing transgender people to change the listing for sex on their driver’s licenses.
The governor's office has said attorneys at the division of vehicles' parent agency, the Kansas Department of Revenue, do not believe allowing transgender people to change their driver's licenses violates the new law.people a month have changed their driver’s licenses this year than in previous years. Such changes accelerated in May and June as LGBTQ+ rights advocates encouraged people to do it ahead of the new law.
Taryn Jones, vice chair and lobbyist for the LGBTQ+ rights group Equality Kansas, acknowledged the concern that allowing the state to keep making changes would make it more difficult for law enforcement, but asked, “How many criminals are you having that are trans?” Jones also said potential problems for law enforcement should be weighed against the harm to the mental health and safety of transgender people who don't have licenses that match their gender identities.
Even with a raft of measures targeting transgender people in statehouses across the U.S. this year, Kansas would be atypical for not allowing them to change sex or gender markers on birth certificates, driver’s licenses or either. Montana and Tennessee also have policies against changing either document, and Oklahoma has a policy against changing birth certificates.
Kobach has argued that the new Kansas law also prevents transgender people from changing the listing for their sex on their birth certificates, but the lawsuit he filed Friday doesn’t address those documents. The
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