The GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that targets transgender people – imposing bathroom restrictions and preventing them from altering the name or gender on their driver’s l…
The GOP-controlled Kansas Legislature passed a bill Tuesday that targets transgender people – imposing bathroom restrictions and preventing them from altering the name or gender on their driver’s licenses.
The bill also would prevent transgender people from changing both driver’s licenses and birth certificates, but the state is under a 2019 federal court order to allow birth certificate changes. “I am what they are scared of,” Ian Benalcazar, a 13-year-old Kansas transgender boy said during a recent LGBTQ-rights rally outside the Statehouse.Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson confers with Senate health committee Chair Beverly Gossage ahead of a vote on a broad transgender bathroom bill on Tuesday.The measure would declare that legally, “sex” means “biological” sex, “either male or female, at birth.
More than 100 people, many of them transgender youth, march around the Kansas Statehouse on the annual Transgender Day of Visibility.The final vote came shortly after Arkansas lawmakers sent GOP Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders a bathroom bill after scaling it back amid complaints it would have criminalized transgender people for simply using a public restroom.
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