Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach’s move to strip trans Kansans of the right to change their gender markers came late Friday, a notorious dumping ground for unpleasant news. Kobach is expected to speak more about the law in question, Senate Bill 180, at a news conference Monday. What does it say that the first significant legal action was a request to discriminate against trans folks who want to update their birth certificates? No one, after all, suffers from such a change, woman or man. It set up a legal process for trans Kansans to change their birth certificates.

Source: CNN June 26, 2023 14:35 UTC