Kansas Put a Bounty on Trans People

Kansas Put a Bounty on Trans People

Credit...Anne Vetter for The New York Times

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Kansas and Colorado

On Feb. 25, Siobhan Kirchstein received an official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles instructing her to surrender her driver’s license. She was one of hundreds of Kansans who received such letters when Senate Bill 244, a hastily passed piece of legislation, invalidated driver’s licenses on which the gender marker did not match the holder’s sex as assigned at birth.

“Additionally, please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials,” the letter said. “This means that once the law is........

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