Kansas Judge Upholds Decision on Transgender Driver's License Gender Markers

A Kansas judge ruled in favor of the state's attorney general, determining that prohibiting sex changes on state IDs and driver's licenses does not violate the rights of transgender individuals. The ruling keeps in place a previous decision to prohibit the Department of Revenue from allowing transgender individuals to change their biological sex on ID cards. The ACLU, representing transgender individuals, argued that the law would violate the state's constitution, but the judge disagreed, stating that the information on a driver's license does not interfere with transgender persons' ability to control their own bodies. Kansas and Florida are the only two states that currently prevent sex changes on state-issued ID cards.