Late last week, Kansas Attorney General, Chris Kobach sued Governor Laura Kelly’s Administration to force the state to prohibit transgender people from changing their sex on their drivers license. A new Kansas law took effect Saturday,July 8th, that prevents such changes and requires the state to reverse any previous changes in its records, a law that Kelly says she will not enforce. Kobach states that the Governor can not pick and choose what laws she enforces and which to ignore. Judge granted a temporary restraining order Monday morning to block Kelly’s Administration from allowing changes. Now, the ACLU has filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit on behalf of five transgender Kansas who would be irreparably harmed by Kobach’s effort to ban and reverse changes to gender markers on drivers licenses.
ACLU of Kansas Legal Director, Sharon Brett, calls the “Women’s Bill of Rights”, the bill that the law comes from, a blatant effort to control and stigmatize transgender residents in Kansas. She says the ACLU, yesterday, filed a motion to oppose the judges injunction and support the Kansas Department Revenue’s motion to dissolve the temporary restraining order. The filing will be on the court docket this morning
