Republican lawmakers want to take away drivers licenses from trans people in Kansas with new billhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/republican-lawmakers-want-to-take-away-drivers-licenses-from-trans-people-in-kansas-with-new-bill/ 🔗Molly Sprayregen (3 Feb 2026)
Kansas Republicans are trying to take away currently valid driver's licenses from transgender people in the state if they have corrected the gender marker on them in a new bill that has also been expanded – under a sneaky maneuver that allows changes to a bill without a public hearing – to be one of the "most extreme" bathroom bills in the nation.
H.B. 2426 was already very anti-trans. It defines "gender" under the law in terms of "chromosomes,... hormones, gonads and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth" and says that driver's licenses can only have someone's sex assigned at birth on it. The bill instructs the state government to invalidate all driver's licenses that do not have a gender marker on them that reflects a person's sex assigned at birth and to reissue new driver's licenses.
But state Republican lawmakers expanded the bill last week, adding a strict anti-trans bathroom ban to a bill already seeking to ban trans Kansanians from changing the gender markers on their driver's licenses.
"You had a bill introduced one day at 3:58 p.m., it was scheduled for a hearing the next day, less than 24 hours notice," state House minority leader Brandon Woodard (D) told the Topeka Capital-Journal.
Republicans, Woodard said, "do those sorts of things in an attempt to shield. They know that the public's not on the side with them. That's not civil. When we delivered those pieces of testimony, the committee assistant said, 'Oh my goodness, this is going to take me days and days to upload.' I said, 'Next time, the chair should consider giving people and Kansans a couple of days notice.'"
