Legal Battle Erupts Over Transgender ID Changes in Kansas

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has filed a lawsuit against Governor Laura Kelly over the ability of transgender individuals to change the gender on their state-issued IDs. The lawsuit seeks to enforce Kobach's opinion that gender changes on driver's licenses should reflect the person's gender assigned at birth. The governor disagrees and believes the state's current policy, which allows gender changes, should remain unchanged. The lawsuit accuses Kelly of ignoring the law, while Kobach argues that the Republican-controlled Legislature has the ultimate say on state law. Since 2019, hundreds of people have changed their gender on their IDs in Kansas.