US EditionKansas 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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Kansas state officials have invalidated the driver's licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who have previously changed their gender. The measure affects more than a thousand people. Those affected will have to apply for new licenses at their own expense. The law requires residents to restore their gender designation to the gender they were assigned at birth and prohibits future changes to these documents. The law also requires…
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