"Kansas Republicans are trying to take away currently valid driver's licenses from transgender people in the state if they have corrected the gender marker on them in a new bill that has also been expanded - under a sneaky maneuver that allows changes to a bill without a public hearing - to be one of the "most extreme" bathroom bills in the nation."
"H.B. 2426 was already very anti-trans. It defines "gender" under the law in terms of "chromosomes,... hormones, gonads and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth" and says that driver's licenses can only have someone's sex assigned at birth on it. The bill instructs the state government to invalidate all driver's licenses that do not have a gender marker on them that reflects a person's sex assigned at birth and to reissue new driver's licenses."
H.B. 2426 defines gender in terms of chromosomes, hormones, gonads and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth and requires driver's licenses to display sex assigned at birth. The bill instructs the state to invalidate driver's licenses whose gender markers do not reflect sex assigned at birth and to reissue new licenses. Lawmakers expanded the bill to add a strict anti-trans bathroom ban while using a gut-and-go procedure that replaces a bill's language and bypasses a public hearing. Republicans introduced the gender-marker provision with less than 24 hours' notice before a public hearing, and residents submitted hundreds of testimonies opposing the bill.
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