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According to the ACLU of Kansas, which joined the case on behalf of five trans Kansans, the order reversing the temporary injunction against KDOR will go into effect Oct. 6. “The Kansas Supreme Court’s decision this week will finally bring an end to nearly two years of government intrusion on trans Kansans’ privacy and put a stop to the attorney general’s efforts to forcibly out people in their daily lives,” said Julie Murray, co-director of the ACLU’s State Supreme Court Initiative, in an email statement.

A spokesperson with the ACLU of Kansas also told the Journal-World on Wednesday afternoon that the organization was “following and concerned” about the pronoun issue, and was gathering more information. ...

Attorney General Kris Kobach isn’t ready to accept a ruling that would allow transgender Kansans to change their gender on driver’s licenses and state identification cards for the first time in two years.

Led by D.C. Hiegert, a legal fellow at ACLU Kansas, and Donnavan Dillon, senior organizer with Loud Light, the evening’s discussion addressed developments in changing gender markers and gender-affirming health care for minors, as well as resources for the local community.

The state is asking a Douglas County judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a new state law banning surgery and the use of puberty blockers for treating transgender children in Kansas.

“We again remind Mr. Kobach that the Constitution specifically protects against government actors and their attacks on Americans — and that includes children in Kansas who happen to be transgender,” the organization wrote in a statement Thursday.

The ACLU of Kansas calls Kobach’s lawsuit a ‘weaponization’ of his office. "We again remind Mr. Kobach that the Constitution specifically protects against government actors and their attacks on Americans – and that includes children in Kansas who happen to be transgender.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas said in a statement that the appeals court's decision is clear in upholding transgender Kansans' rights, but that decision isn't in effect until a mandate is issued.

The ACLU of Kansas, the ACLU and Stinson LLP intervened in the case on behalf of five transgender Kansans who claim to have been harmed by Kobach’s effort to ban and reverse changes to the gender markers on their driver’s licenses.