Kansas Is Revoking Many Trans People's Driver's Licenses Due to New Law

Transgender Kansans, blindsided by invalidated IDs, fear wide-ranging legal restrictions will isolate them publicly

Transgender Kansans said they felt blindsided by the law’s swift enforcement and sweeping provisions, which some fear will make it increasingly difficult to perform essential tasks within the state such as applying for jobs, voting and using a public restroom.

Trans Folks Stubbornly Continue To Exist In Kansas, Despite New Driver's License Law

A slightly modified detail from John Steuart Curry’s mural ‘Tragic Prelude’ (1937-42) in the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka.In February, Republicans in the Kansas Legislature used a scuzzy parliamentary trick to pass a sweeping new anti-trans law without even a pretense of public hearings, sneakily adding an anti-trans “bathroom bill” to an already-controversial proposal to force trans people to list only their “biological sex at birth” on their dr…

Kansas is revoking many trans people's driver's licenses due to new law

The legislation was written so that trans people's licenses are revoked immediately without a grace period to swap to new licenses.

Kansas invalidates trans people’s driver’s licenses

TOPEKA, Kan.—The Kansas Department of Revenue’s vehicles division has begun sending letters to trans people stating that their driver’s licenses are going to be invalidated in the coming days. New licenses will need to be issued to 1,800 people. The licenses were invalidated following the passage of the controversial SB 244 bill in the Kansas legislature. In addition to instigating the recent driver’s license shutdown, it also contained provisio…

Kansas Invalidates Drivers License Of Trans Woman Who Never Changed Her Gender Marker

You'd think that with everything else going on, legislatures would have more important things to do than target a group that only makes up 1% of the population.

Kansas demands trans people hand over their driving licenses as part of 'Bathroom Bounty'

Late last week, on February 26, the state of Kansas dealt its most heinous blow yet to trans people. The new law is titled ‘House Substitute for Senate Bill 244 (HSB244). However, it’s also become known as the ‘Bathroom Bounty’. The bill immediately invalidated state-issued driver’s licenses, identification cards, and birth certificates if they didn’t reflect the holder’s sex as assigned at birth. As part of that legislature, the Kansas Departme…