Suit challenges Kansas law that revoked trans people's updated IDs
USA TODAY
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging a new anti-transgender law in Kansas that includes a bathroom bill and a ban on gender marker changes.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging Kansas' new sweeping anti-transgender law, the first in the nation to rescind previously issued IDs with updated gender markers.
Senate Bill 244 took effect Feb. 26 after the Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Legislature overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
"This legislation is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans," said Monica Bennett, the ACLU of Kansas' legal director, in a statement. "It undermines our state's strong constitutional protections against government overreach and persecution."
The lawsuit was filed Feb. 26 in Douglas County District Court on behalf of two anonymous plaintiffs. The lawyers on the case are from the ACLU and Ballard Spahr LLP. They argue "that SB 244 violates the Kansas Constitution's protections for personal autonomy, privacy, equality under the law, due process, and freedom of speech."
The law prohibits transgender Kansans from changing the sex or gender marker on their driver's license and birth certificates. It also immediately invalidated identification documents for more than 1,000 transgender Kansans who already had changes approved.
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