Trans Kansans react to ID law with defiance and escape plans: 'I will never relinquish my license'
Transgender Kansans are reacting with defiance and fear to a new state law regulating bathroom use and gender markers on identification documents. The law has invalidated the driver's licenses of 275 people who had changed their gender markers and allows individuals to pursue civil claims against transgender people for using bathrooms that don't match their sex assigned at birth.
A new law in Kansas requires transgender people to use bathrooms in public buildings and have gender markers on driver's licenses and birth certificates that match their sex assigned at birth. The law took effect on February 26 and immediately invalidated the driver's licenses of 275 people who had changed their gender markers. Some transgender Kansans are planning to leave the state, while others are defying the law. Rhashanna Grant, a transgender woman from Wichita, says she will not relinquish her invalidated driver's license. Two trans men from Lawrence have filed a lawsuit challenging the law. The law also allows individuals to pursue a 'bounty' by filing a civil claim against transgender people for using bathrooms that don't match their sex assigned at birth.
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