Kansas' attorney general is moving to block trans people from changing their birth certificates

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Source: AP

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Transgender people born in Kansas could be prevented from changing their birth certificates to reflect their gender identities if the state’s conservative Republican attorney is successful with a legal move he launched late Friday. Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a request in federal court asking a judge to end a requirement for Kansas to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates.

U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree imposed the requirement in 2019 to settle a lawsuit filed by four transgender Kansas residents against three state health department officials over a policy that critics said prevented transgender people from making changes even after transitioning, legally changing their names and obtaining new driver’s licenses and Social Security cards.

It wasn’t clear whether Kobach’s effort would succeed, given a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2020 declaring a federal law barring sex discrimination in employment also prevents discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Also in 2022, federal judges in Idaho and Ohio struck down rules against transgender people changing their birth certificates. But this month, federal judges in Tennessee and Oklahoma dismissed challenges to two of the nation’s few remaining state policies against such changes.

Kobach’s move appears to be in keeping with a new, sweeping Kansas law taking effect July 1 that rolls back transgender rights and was enacted by the Republican-controlled Legislature over Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto. A memo filed electronically with the request by Kobach shortly before midnight cited the law as a reason to revisit the 2019 settlement.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/kansas-transgender-birth-certificates-f9723de7460ab5fe71b3e80ba7854046

[rsdsharp]

1. I guess he's got some time on his hands

since he no longer has to attend remedial continuing legal education on the rules of civil procedure and/or evidence.

[Mz Pip]

2. Waste of time

How many people does this actually affect? A couple hundred? Why not just leave them alone and stick to doing something that benefits the whole state, instead of harassing a few hundred people.

[slightlv]

3. Because this is Kansas.

If anyone is feeling good, peaceful, and minding their own business, then the christofascists are up in arms because the whole state is living in a state of sin. They know best... dontcha know... /sarcasm.

This all ramped up once Brownback and his crew got into power here. It's been bad because of the R's before him, but he brought bloody hell to our state. Too many of his minions are in positions of power, so I see Brownback in charge simply through proxy. Gov. Laura has done remarkably well when you look at what she's had to contend with. But she's got someone with a knife to her back with every move she makes.

If only I had the money to move.... I tried like hell to keep Kobach out of office this last time. Obviously, to no avail. There are too many who have bitten the apple of christofascism around here, I'm afraid. This state always was really "jesus-y" but now it's on steroids. We can't even get pot ok'd here.

[aka-chmeee]

4. The only thing I know of that tfg did that pleased me.

Got Brownback the hell out of Kansas.