TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit Friday to block Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration from allowing transgender Kansans to continue to change their gender marker on driver’s licenses after a new law took effect last week.
In a motion of mandamus filed in Shawnee County District Court against the Kansas Department of Revenue, Kobach, a Republican, said Kelly was unlawfully ignoring SB 180, which defines man and woman in state law based upon sex assigned at birth.
In a legal opinion last week Kobach argued that the law, which went into effect Saturday, requires the Kansas Department of Revenue to stop allowing changes to driver’s licenses. Any documents that have already been changed, he argued, need to be reverted back to the individual’s sex assigned at birth. He reiterated that argument in the lawsuit.
