Kansas to Toughen Rules on Transgender Birth Certificates

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/transgender-advocates-decry-kansas-proposal-birth-records-39070481

ABC News/By JOHN HANNA, AP POLITICAL WRITER TOPEKA, Kan. — May 12, 2016, 8:50 PM ET

"Kansas is pursuing regulations that would give it one of the nation's toughest policies against allowing transgender people to update their birth certificates, prompting anger from advocates and threats of a lawsuit.

State health department officials contend an existing agency regulation allowing amended birth certificates conflicts with state law and needs to be eliminated. The agency has been pursuing changes for months and could impose them within six weeks."

This is actually going better than the headline makes it sound. When this was first discussed months ago it seemed like it would be a slam dunk for the state. They're getting caught in the HB-2 backlash and the public education that has been going with it, and they're facing threatened lawsuits and pushback.