This is a good reason to not relocate to Kansas or other rabidly red states today. Imagine waking up and learning your state legislature has just invalidated your drivers license and official identity because of your gender?
The law bars any “sex” listing on driver’s licenses and birth certificates other than the one assigned at birth and invalidates existing records that don’t comply. The state has started notifying transgender people by mail that their licenses are invalid and they must get new ones immediately.
At least eight other states don’t allow transgender people to change one or both documents, but only Kansas has invalidated documents that were previously changed.
2 trans men sue Kansas over a law invalidating their driver’s licenses and about 1,700 others (AP, 27 Feb 2026)
We should reject acts of culture warriors like this. Because the targets and victims of this culture war are our neighbors, our fellow citizens, our own brothers and sisters. And because “telling the world who you are” is a HUMAN RIGHT, not a legislative privilege of some cis-gendered folks racialized as white, who temporarily have an assigned seat in the state legislature.
I reject this culture of hate. Instead I choose to follow the path of the culture healers.
via“Tormenting transgender folks just because you can” by SHAY STEWART-BOULEY
Also shared on the “Heal Our Culture” Substack.
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