From today Kansas residents will no longer be permitted to carry a driver’s license listing any sex other than the one assigned at birth, and the state is set to invalidate roughly 1,700 licenses and birth certificates currently held by residents.
The law has been simmering in state politics for some time, but it gained momentum after Donald Trump returned to office and made clear that a renewed “war on woke” would be central to his agenda. Several Republican-led states had already imposed restrictions preventing gender identities that differ from sex assigned at birth from being reflected on official documents. However, this new Kansas law goes significantly further than previous mandates.
