First-of-its-kind law revokes IDs and enacts bathroom rules
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The law retroactively invalidates driver's licenses with updated gender markers that were legally obtained.
Driver's licenses and birth certificates for more than 1,000 transgender Americans living in Kansas are now invalid, after a state law went into effect Feb. 26 banning the changes of sex markers on documents to align with gender identity and reversing previous changes.
The law gives no defined grace period, which state officials have said means any trans person who previously legally changed the marker will immediately have invalid documents, opening them up to possible penalties for driving with an invalid license, for example.
Senate Bill 244 was vetoed by Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, but the veto was then overridden by Republican supermajorities in the Kansas legislature, allowing it to go into effect on Feb. 26, reported the Topeka Capital-Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Kansas joins Texas, Florida and Tennessee in prohibiting the updating of gender markers on driver's licenses, according to a tracker by the nonprofit Movement Advancement Project, which tracks LGBTQ-related laws and policies. At least eight other states also ban changes to gender markers on birth certificates for transgender people.
The new law makes Kansas the first state in the nation to retroactively invalidate such driver's licenses that were legally obtained, said Harper Seldin, a senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's LGBTQ & HIV Project.
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