Vindictive!

That is what it is! Nothing else but pure vindictiveness.

Kansas to force trans people to reverse gender markers on birth certificates and driving licences

A Kansas law will reverse gender markers on trans people’s birth certificates and driving licences, in a move deemed “disastrous” for those affected.

Pink News

By Chantelle Billson

June 28, 2023

On Monday (26 June), state attorney general Kris Kobach confirmed to reporters that the new law – Senate Bill 180 – which takes effect from 1 July, will legally erase trans people’s gender identities.

The Republican-controlled legislature enacted the law despite Democratic governor Laura Kelly vetoing it in April.

Kobach said the law will also force public schools to record students as the gender assigned at birth, regardless of whether teachers and staff recognise gender identities of trans and non-binary students.

The legislation, described by the Kansas Senate as a “women’s bill of rights,” defines “sex” as “either male or female at birth” in state law, with no alternative definition for individuals who identify as trans, non-binary, gender fluid, or gender-non-conforming.

In addition, trans people will be forced to use toilets and other single-sex spaces corresponding to the gender they were assigned at birth.

Republican representative Brenda Landwehr, who voted for the bill, said it would “protect women’s spaces currently reserved for women and men’s spaces currently reserved for men”.

Nothing but spitefulness. These Republicans have no empathy for others… this is politics at it worst. They just don’t care the harm they are doing.

Trans activist and journalist Erin Reed, whose partner is trans Montana lawmaker Zooey Zephyr, said of the new law: “Rolling back transgender people’s legal markers would be disastrous and fraught with difficulty.”

Reed said enforcing incorrect gender markers could lead trans people to experience heightened “harassment and abuse”.

No kidding! 

According to AP News, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, a lawyer for Lambda Legal, said: “The attorney general must be off his rocker. This was a bunch of bombast by an attorney general engaging in politics.”

It is like the Republican states are in competition with other states to see who can come up with the most draconian laws.