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Kansas Judge Keeps Transgender ID and Bathroom Law in Effect During Challenge

The ruling leaves SB 244 in effect pending a Douglas County case brought by two transgender Kansans.

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Mandy Todd, left, pastor of Messiah Lutheran Church in Lindsborg, Kan., and Rabbi Moti Rieber, right, executive director of Kansas Interfaith Action, protest a new Kansas law that will invalidate hundreds of driver's licenses and birth certificates for transgender people that reflect their gender identities, Monday, Feb. 16, outside the Kansas Senate chamber in the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Overview

  • Douglas County District Judge James McCabria on March 10 denied a temporary restraining order, allowing enforcement of SB 244 to continue.
  • The ACLU and Ballard Spahr represent two plaintiffs using pseudonyms Daniel Doe and Matthew Moe, with a case management hearing set for March 18.
  • SB 244 restricts restroom, locker room and similar facility access in government buildings to a person’s sex assigned at birth and bans multi-stall gender-neutral bathrooms.
  • The law bars changes to sex or gender markers on driver’s licenses and birth certificates and, upon taking effect Feb. 26, reportedly invalidated more than 1,000 updated IDs.
  • Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach opposed the restraining order, arguing the plaintiffs are unlikely to succeed and have not shown irreparable harm, while the plaintiffs cited significant practical and constitutional harms.