Two transgender men sue Kansas over ‘dehumanizing’ driver’s license law
Law demanding IDs must match sex at birth' invalidated the driver's licenses of about 1,700 trans people in the state
Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver's licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people's gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is dehumanizing".
The men filed their case Thursday, the same day the law took effect, and argue that it violates rights to privacy, personal autonomy and due legal process guaranteed by the Kansas state constitution. The men also are challenging the law's tough, new enforcement provisions for the state's three-year-old policy of barring transgender people from using public restrooms or other single-sex facilities associated with their gender identities.
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