"The new law also authorizes any individual to sue anyone in Kansas who they suspect of using the "wrong" restroom, based on the state's new definition of gender, which wrongly states that gender is equivalent to the sex a person was assigned at birth. Critics of the law have described this provision as a "bathroom bounty," as those individuals can collect up to $1,000 in "damages.""
"The law "is a cruel and craven threat to public safety all in the name of fostering fear, division, and paranoia," said Harper Seldin, senior staff attorney for the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project."
"The law "is a direct attack on the dignity and humanity of transgender Kansans," said Monica Bennett, legal director of the ACLU of Kansas. "It undermines our state's strong constitutional protections against government overreach and persecution.""
Kansas implemented a new law that invalidates driver's licenses of transgender residents whose gender markers don't comply with the state's definition of gender as equivalent to sex assigned at birth. The law prohibits future updates to gender markers on state-issued documents and includes a provision allowing any individual to sue others suspected of using the "wrong" restroom, with potential damages up to $1,000. Transgender residents received letters requiring them to surrender non-compliant licenses to the Kansas Division of Vehicles. Two transgender men, represented by the ACLU, filed a lawsuit to block the law. The law takes effect immediately with no grace period for affected individuals.
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