Kansas sued over new transgender ID and bathroom lawhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/kansas-sued-over-new-transgender-id-and-bathroom-law/ar-AA1XdFKU?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=3b58b6bfb5004f4e83debd80ead34e3c&ei=86 🔗 [Link: msn.com/en-us/news/us/kansas-sued-over-new-transgender-id-and-bathroom-law/ar-AA1XdFKU/]Daniel Wiessner (27 Feb 2027)
Feb 27 (Reuters) - Two transgender men in Kansas filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to strike down a new state law that invalidated the driver's licenses and birth certificates of more than 1,000 transgender people.
The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the plaintiffs, who claim in the lawsuit, filed in Kansas state court, that the law violates their rights to equality, due process and privacy under the state constitution.
The law makes Kansas the only U.S. state to invalidate previously approved changes to gender markers on identification documents, part of a broader push by Republican-led legislatures to restrict the rights of transgender people.
The sweeping law, which took effect on Thursday, requires state residents to change their gender identification on driver's licenses and birth certificates to the sex they were assigned at birth, and bans them from changing their gender on those documents in the future.
The law also prohibits transgender people from using multi-occupancy bathrooms in government buildings that do not correspond to their sex assigned at birth, and authorizes private citizens to sue people who violate the law.
The plaintiffs, who filed the lawsuit under pseudonyms, said the law will require them to disclose their transgender status each time they present identification and expose them to harassment and violence when they use public bathrooms. They said they would seek an order temporarily blocking the law while the case proceeds.
Kansas officials on Thursday said identification documents had been invalidated for more than 1,000 state residents. Affected residents must pay for new driver's licenses.
