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SB 244 is a Kansas law that discriminates against transgender people in at least two different ways.
First, the law restricts transgender people’s access to restrooms and other sex-separated facilities in government buildings, while creating new civil and criminal penalties to enforce those restrictions.

Second, the law changes the rules that apply to government IDs for transgender people. It prohibits transgender people from updating their driver’s licenses to reflect their gender, and also invalidates transgender people’s existing driver’s licenses and birth certificates if those documents were issued in Kansas and reflect a gender different from a person’s sex at birth.

Kansas law puts transgender people in an impossible position. For transgender people, using the restroom consistent with their gender, and how they live their lives, is now against the law in government buildings. But using the restroom consistent with their sex at birth in government buildings may out them as transgender and be unsafe. Either way, transgender people may be punished and harassed.
A transgender person can comply with the new law by using single-user restrooms, but they are not always available and we recognize that utilizing them may impose delays or other burdens on transgender people.

If someone confronts you, claiming that you are in the wrong restroom, relay that you will be done momentarily or that you will leave as soon as you finish, and avoid further confrontation.
If someone threatens violence against you, leave as immediately as you can.

If asked to leave by law enforcement or a government employee with authority over the building, leave as immediately as you can.

When you are somewhere safe, write down what happened and the names or roles of any people who asked you to leave or threatened you. We would also welcome hearing from you about your experience. Importantly, reaching out to us does not mean the ACLU is your lawyer and does not create an attorney-client relationship.

SB 244 says that any driver’s license with a gender marker that is inconsistent with sex at birth is now invalid. The Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR) must provide written notice to anyone whose license is affected by this law. The notice is supposed to inform affected people that their license is invalid, that they must surrender the license, and that they will be given a new driver’s license with the gender marker reverted (changed back) to their sex at birth.

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