Kansas invalidates driver’s licenses, birth certificates of over 1,000 transgender residents - Reuters
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"It has created a lot of confusion and a lot of anxiety."
— Abi Boatman , Politician
"Since I started living as myself, I always knew that who I [am] was always going to be subject to legislation."
— Anthony Alvarez , Activist
"It is uniquely draconian, and cruel to basically police trans Kansans using their neighbors."
— Anthony Alvarez , Activist
"The mismatch between how they present themselves in the world and their driver's license puts them at risk of discrimination or violence."
— Harper Seldin , Activist
"The persecution is the point."
— Abi Boatman , Politician
"Forcing people into the wrong bathrooms, stripping them of accurate IDs, and allowing government-sanctioned harassment doesn’t make anyo..."
— Kelley Robinson , Activist
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The only transgender member of the Kansas state legislature.
A trans student at the University of Kansas discussing the impact of SB 244.
Harper Seldin is a senior staff attorney with the LGBTQ and HIV Project at the American Civil Liberties Union.
President of the Human Rights Campaign, an organization advocating for the LGBT community.
Kris Kobach is the Attorney General of Kansas.
Governor of Kansas who vetoed SB 244.
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Kansas has invalidated the driver's licenses of transgender residents whose gender markers do not match their sex assigned at birth, as a new law takes effect.
The Kansas state government has invalidated the driver's licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed the gender on those documents, in accordance with a new law that took effect on Thursday.
Transgender people living in Kansas have been ordered to hand back their driver’s licenses if they do not reflect their assigned-sex-at-birth, under a new law.
Transgender Kansans are being informed on the eve of a new state law going into effect that their driver’s licenses will be considered invalid as of Thursday.
The Kansas state government has invalidated the driver's licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed the gender on those documents, in accordance with a new law that took effect on Thursday.
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