{"id":67447,"date":"2026-02-26T16:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/kansas-revokes-drivers-licenses-from-trans-residents-in-latest-assault-on-rights\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:55:45","slug":"kansas-revokes-drivers-licenses-from-trans-residents-in-latest-assault-on-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/kansas-revokes-drivers-licenses-from-trans-residents-in-latest-assault-on-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas revokes driver\u2019s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law demanding IDs match \u2018sex at birth\u2019 also includes bathroom ban provision for trans people in public buildings <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Transgender Kansas residents have begun receiving letters from the state\u2019s department of motor vehicles notifying them that their driver\u2019s licenses will be invalid beginning Thursday, as a new law goes into effect that demands that forms of identification must now reflect the credential holder\u2019s \u201csex at birth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/kslegislature.gov\/li\/b2025_26\/measures\/documents\/sb244_enrolled.pdf\">SB 244<\/a>, also bans transgender people from using bathrooms in public buildings that match their gender identity, and creates a sort of bounty hunter system, in which citizens can sue transgender people they encounter in restrooms for $1,000 in damages.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/26\/kansas-trans-drivers-license-law-assault-on-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law demanding IDs match \u2018sex at birth\u2019 also includes bathroom ban provision for trans people in public buildings Transgender Kansas residents have begun receiving letters from the state\u2019s department of motor vehicles notifying them that their driver\u2019s licenses will be invalid beginning Thursday, as a new law goes into effect that demands that forms of &#8230; <a title=\"Kansas revokes driver\u2019s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/kansas-revokes-drivers-licenses-from-trans-residents-in-latest-assault-on-rights\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kansas revokes driver\u2019s licenses from trans residents in latest assault on rights\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}