It is not a canvas on which a person can paint one’s expression and preferences.” “Similarly, a driver’s license is a state document reflecting a state database for state purposes. In Kansas, “a birth certificate is a record of what happened at the moment a baby came out of the womb,” Kobach said in a news release announcing his legal opinion. While many US states have expanded gender identifier options on public documents, some states in recent months also have enacted laws – some with potential felony charges – targeting transgender women, men and children from restricting restroom use and access to gender-affirming care to banning certain pronoun usage and limiting participation in same-gender sports. New Jersey adds 'X' gender marker on driver's licenses and other state identification The definition also applies to state regulation of public restrooms, locker rooms and athletics, plus prisons, domestic violence shelters and rape crisis centers, the legislation states. State records include school documents and records of state departments and agencies.

Now, Senate Bill 180 – dubbed the “Kansas Women’s Bill of Rights” – mandates “an individual’s ‘sex’ means such individual’s biological sex, either male or female, at birth,” Kris Kobach said in the legal opinion he issued it in response to a GOP state legislator’s inquiry about the impact of “the 2023 law requiring state records reflect biological sex,” he told CNN this week. The law requires the sex designation on Kansas driver’s licenses and birth certificates to reflect a person’s sex at birth, the state’s Republican attorney general said in a legal opinion Monday, years after Kansas – as part of a 2019 federal equal protection lawsuit settlement – began allowing birth certificates to be changed to reflect a person’s gender identity. A Kansas teacher is suing school officials for requiring her to address students by their preferred names, saying the policy violates her religious freedom

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