Kansas reverses policy on birth certificates so transgender residents can’t alter gender identities

Kansas will no longer allow its transgender residents to alter their birth certificates.

The state health department confirmed Friday that it will begin adhering to a recent law that requires entities such as itself to identify residents by their sex listed at birth. In 2019, a consent ruling from a state court allowed residents to change the sex listed on their birth certificates. Some 400 residents preceded to do so.

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In June, Kansas Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach requested to vacate parts of the consent judgment to make way for the law that would ultimately reverse the policy. By August, a judge granted the request but explicitly did not rule on the constitutionality of the new law, which went into effect July 1.

Lambda Legal, the firm that represented four transgender clients to enact the policy back in 2019, claimed that it had “operated without incident.”

“We will evaluate next steps to determine how best to continue to secure the right of transgender Kansans to have identity documents consistent with who they are,” Omar Gonzalez-Pagan Lambda Legal counsel and health care strategist, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Gov. Laura Kelly (D-KS) has publicly disagreed with the law but committed to follow it.

The news comes two months after a state court ordered Kansas to stop permitting transgender people to alter the listing for their sex on their driver’s licenses.