Posted on 02/22/2026 7:03:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is set to invalidate about 1,700 driver’s licenses held by transgender residents and roughly as many birth certificates under a new law that goes beyond Republican-imposed restrictions in other states on listing gender identities in government documents.
The bill prohibits documents from listing any sex other than the one assigned birth and invalidates any that reflect a conflicting gender identity. Florida, Tennessee and Texas also don’t allow driver’s licenses to reflect a trans person’s gender identity, and at least eight states besides Kansas have policies that bar trans residents from changing their birth certificates.
But only Kansas’ law requires reversing changes previously made for trans residents. Kansas officials expect to cancel about 1,700 driver’s licenses and issue new birth certificates for up to 1,800 people.
Kansas’ new law enjoyed nearly unanimous GOP support. It is the latest success in what has become an annual effort to further roll back transgender rights by Republicans in statehouses across the U.S., bolstered by policies and rhetoric from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Trump and other Republicans attack research-backed conclusions that gender can change or be fluid as radical “gender ideology.” GOP lawmakers in Kansas regularly describe transgender girls and women as male and as they say they’re protecting women.
Like fellow Republicans, Kansas Senate Majority Leader Chase Blaisi said Trump’s reelection and other GOP victories in 2024 show that voters want “to return to common sense” on gender.
“When I go home, people believe there are just two sexes, male and female,” Blasi said. “It’s basic biology I learned in high school.”
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Applause!
No one is trans. Trans identities are delusions.
Good.
Don’t validate crazy.
The Mentally Ill and the Alias
Exactly.
My thoughts exactly.
Never should have kowtowed to their deranged role playing fantasies to begin with.
“Like fellow Republicans, Kansas Senate Majority Leader Chase Blaisi said Trump’s reelection and other GOP victories in 2024 show that voters want “to return to common sense” on gender.” Good.
Sex is not "assigned" at birth. What happens is that your sex is RECORDED at birth.
Saying that sex is assigned at birth signals agreement with the trans narrative.
Kansas believes in science.
In Florida if a person thinks they're "God" we don't let them put that on their driver's license either...
Correct.
Also, the notion that people are ‘assigned’ a sex is similarly fictional; people are one sex or the other, as defined by their chromosomes. Their sex is not ‘assigned’, it is recognized.
What a clever NARRATIVE you offer as comment.
My comment restated a line from the article. "Assigned" is the verb chosen by Associated Press writer John Hanna.
Maybe you'd like to ask John Hanna why he wrote "sex is assigned at birth?"
His email address is -- jdhanna@ap.org. Good luck with your pursuit of verb-iage.
I identify as a red head but actually have graying brown hair. If I can’t put an imaginary hair color on my driver’s license why put an imaginary gender?
Check
But Liberal Laura believes in Woke and will veto this the minute it hits her desk.
Thank goodness Laura is gone pretty soon...but we’ll probably get another Kathleen Sebelius.
Victory is in sight over this madness, but the rear guard is determined and growing desperate. And we can expect more of their deranged foot soldiers to lash out murderously
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