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Kansas Invalidates 3,500 Transgender IDs Under New Law
Kansas law invalidates about 1,700 updated IDs and birth certificates, requiring transgender residents to surrender and replace them at their own cost immediately.
- Published in the Kansas Register on Thursday, February 26, 2026, Kansas officials said IDs with gender markers that do not match sex assigned at birth are invalid under SB 244.
- With 31-9 in the Senate and 87-37 in the House, Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Legislature overrode Gov. Laura Kelly's veto to enact SB 244, framed as protecting restrooms and locker rooms.
- KDOR and KDHE must now stop gender marker changes, correct license records, and invalidate and reissue birth certificate records, with KDHE estimating over 1,800 amended records require manual review.
- KDOR expects roughly 1,500 notifications, and affected individuals must surrender current licenses for replacement driver's licenses paid by the individual, with $1,000 fines for violations, KDOR spokesperson Zach Denney said.
- After courts allowed gender-marker changes to resume in fall 2025, SB 244 not only bans new changes but also requires invalidation of past ones, with Kelly criticizing the law and critics decrying discrimination.
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The Washington PostNew law puts Kansas at vanguard of denying trans identities on drivers licenses, birth certificates
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 d…
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