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‘Bathroom Bill’: Law impacting transgender Kansans takes effect
KWCH ^ | February 28, 2026 | Matt Heilman, Cale Chapman and Sophia Gernander

Posted on 03/02/2026 8:02:40 PM PST by Morgana

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - A Kansas law now in effect requires residents to use bathrooms corresponding with their sex assigned at birth and invalidates driver’s licenses and birth certificates that were altered to reflect a gender identity different from that assigned at birth. There is no grace period in the bill.

Trans residents are required to obtain new driver’s licenses immediately. Amended birth certificates must be requested through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

Kansas is the first state to include driver’s licenses and birth certificates under this type of law. Other states, including Texas, have passed similar bathroom requirements but did not extend them to identification documents. ‘At this point, I have no legal driver’s license’

Isadora John Avett, a trans woman who lives in Wichita, said the law has upended her daily life. Avett transitioned a few years ago.

“Blow to the gut. Watching my world disappear, a world I’d never expected,” Avett said.

She said transitioning had been a significant personal milestone.

“By the time I had lived myself, my true self, for a week, I could not go back,” Avett said.

Avett is among thousands of trans Kansans now working to update their identification.

“At this point, I have no legal driver’s license,” she said.

Avett said less than one percent of Kansans are transgender and described the law as targeting her community.

“There’s always somebody to hate. And they find a lot of coalition in that hatred,” Avett said.

(Excerpt) Read more at kwch.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: bathroom; kansas; trans
I just found out about this on youtube and that if you catch a tranny in the bathroom you can sue them for up to $1000. in court for distress.
1 posted on 03/02/2026 8:02:40 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana
‘Bathroom Bill’

Reading that far I thought this was going to be about Slick Willy Clinton.

2 posted on 03/02/2026 8:12:34 PM PST by TigersEye (Are the RINOs helping the Democrats with their color revolution?)
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To: Morgana

I always wondered how the wymen would use the urinal.


3 posted on 03/02/2026 8:14:20 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Morgana

You will notice that the “news” outlets never mention the fact that young girls would have to strip in locker rooms and showers in front of creeps pretending to be females if this BS was not outlawed. They always limit the stories to just the bathrooms.


4 posted on 03/02/2026 8:17:43 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Morgana
IIRC, KS Gov. Laura Kelly tried to veto this bill but was overridden by the Republican-led Congress. This is twice she has been overridden, IIRC.

Don't know why KS elects awful liberal women governors like Kelly, Sebelius, Kassebaum. Wish they would stop it.

5 posted on 03/02/2026 8:18:56 PM PST by ZOOKER
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To: Morgana
“There’s always somebody to hate. And they find a lot of coalition in that hatred,” Avett said.

No - if someone wants to live in that fantasy world, they can do so. But they don't have the right to force everyone else to live in their fantasy world as well. The reality of biology and language has nothing to do with "hate."

6 posted on 03/02/2026 8:20:42 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: ZOOKER

Johnson County


7 posted on 03/02/2026 8:58:06 PM PST by bobcat62
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To: Morgana

“their sex assigned at birth”

I truly despise this phrase. Sex is not “assigned” it’s an attribute you’re born with.

Do we “assign” skin color at birth, how about a nose. Is that something that is assigned?

And what about species, why not “assign” that too, so somebody could be assigned “dog” at birth?

That we accept these terms so readily disgusts me beyond belief.

Another one is “gender affirming care”, which in actuality is affirming delusions.


8 posted on 03/02/2026 10:04:21 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Morgana

Gives me hope for my state. I gave up on my county - it’s getting bluer as the years pass.


9 posted on 03/02/2026 11:17:06 PM PST by peggybac (“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand)
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To: bobcat62

Exactly! Along with Douglas and a few others.


10 posted on 03/02/2026 11:19:41 PM PST by peggybac (“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.” - Ayn Rand)
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To: Morgana

Isadora blinded me with $cience.


11 posted on 03/03/2026 12:42:53 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Morgana

Kansas is the first state to include driver licenses and birth certificates under this type of law.
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Not really, local state and federal form of identification have always had sex and other characteristics listed.

When (or how) did it become even possible to falsify official documents? Never understood that. People can be strange, it’s true, very very strange, but when did the DMV start allowing nonsense? Makes no sense.


12 posted on 03/03/2026 2:09:50 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Morgana

I saw this the other day: “Go west young them.” LoL.


13 posted on 03/03/2026 5:14:19 AM PST by bruoz
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To: gibsonguy

I have noticed that too. MSM wants no focus on teenage girls having to strip in front of these sick creeps in High and Junior High schools.


14 posted on 03/03/2026 7:21:55 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: Morgana
corresponding with their sex assigned at birth

You know it's a left-wing outlet when they use that phrase but at least they used "sex" instead of "gender". NO ONE is assigned a sex at birth. What happens is that your sex is recorded at birth!

15 posted on 03/03/2026 7:32:32 AM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Morgana

You can be as tranny as you want, but you just can’t share a bathroom, locker room etc with your imaginary gender.


16 posted on 03/03/2026 8:51:19 AM PST by The Great RJ
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