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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Sara Braun

Kansas revokes driver’s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights

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Kansas’s attorney general, Kris Kobach, speaks about a new state law affecting transgender people and driver's licenses, on 26 June 2023, in Topeka. Photograph: John Hanna/AP

Transgender Kansas residents have begun receiving letters from the state’s department of motor vehicles notifying them that their driver’s licenses will be invalid beginning Thursday, as a new law goes into effect that demands that forms of identification must now reflect the credential holder’s “sex at birth”.

The bill, known as SB 244, also bans transgender people from using bathrooms in public buildings that match their gender identity, and creates a sort of bounty hunter system, in which citizens can sue transgender people they encounter in restrooms for $1,000 in damages.

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