Transgender Intervention in Kansas ID Lawsuit: Attorney General Warns of Potential 'Morass'

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach argues that allowing transgender individuals to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to force the state to list the sex assigned at birth on their driver's licenses would create a legal "morass." Kobach wants to keep the focus on his argument that a new state law bars changing transgender people's licenses to reflect their gender identities. The five transgender individuals, represented by the ACLU, argue that barring changes violates their rights under the Kansas Constitution. Kobach also argues that if they intervene and raise constitutional issues, he would be obligated to defend the Department of Revenue against those claims in his own lawsuit.