New law puts Kansas at the vanguard of denying trans identities on IDs

Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver's licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many of their birth certificates. It's because of a new law that goes beyond Republican-imposed restrictions in other states on listing gender identities in government documents. The law takes effect this week after the Legislature’s Republican supermajorities last week overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. The new law prohibits the documents from listing any sex other than the one assigned birth and invalidates any that reflect a conflicting gender identity. A handful of states don't allow changes in the documents, but only Kansas requires undoing past changes.