{"id":67568,"date":"2026-02-27T17:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/two-transgender-men-sue-kansas-over-dehumanizing-drivers-license-law\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T22:57:35","slug":"two-transgender-men-sue-kansas-over-dehumanizing-drivers-license-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/two-transgender-men-sue-kansas-over-dehumanizing-drivers-license-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Two transgender men sue Kansas over \u2018dehumanizing\u2019 driver\u2019s license law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law demanding IDs must match \u2018sex at birth\u2019 invalidated the driver\u2019s licenses of about 1,700 trans people in the state <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/26\/kansas-trans-drivers-license-law-assault-on-rights\">invalidated their driver\u2019s licenses<\/a> and about 1,700 others for reflecting people\u2019s gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is \u201cdehumanizing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The men filed their case Thursday, the same day the law took effect, and argue that it violates rights to privacy, personal autonomy and due legal process guaranteed by the Kansas state constitution. The men also are challenging the law\u2019s tough, new enforcement provisions for the state\u2019s three-year-old policy of barring transgender people from using public restrooms or other single-sex facilities associated with their gender identities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/27\/transgender-men-kansas-drivers-license-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law demanding IDs must match \u2018sex at birth\u2019 invalidated the driver\u2019s licenses of about 1,700 trans people in the state Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver\u2019s licenses and about 1,700 others for &#8230; <a title=\"Two transgender men sue Kansas over \u2018dehumanizing\u2019 driver\u2019s license law\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/two-transgender-men-sue-kansas-over-dehumanizing-drivers-license-law\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Two transgender men sue Kansas over \u2018dehumanizing\u2019 driver\u2019s license law\">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-67568","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\/67568","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=67568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}