{"id":1967195,"date":"2023-07-07T20:59:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T00:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-attorney-general-sues-to-prevent-birth-certificate-and-drivers-license-changes-by-transgender-kansans\/"},"modified":"2023-07-07T20:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T00:59:53","slug":"republican-attorney-general-sues-to-prevent-birth-certificate-and-drivers-license-changes-by-transgender-kansans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-attorney-general-sues-to-prevent-birth-certificate-and-drivers-license-changes-by-transgender-kansans\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP AG sues to block transgender Kansans from altering birth certificates and licenses."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-attorney-general-sues-to-prevent-birth-certificate-and-drivers-license-changes-by-transgender-kansans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1967195&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Kansas Attorney General Sues Governor Over Transgender Rights<\/h2>\n<p>Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-m-widower-sues-alburquerque-over-sanctuary-city-policy\/\" title=\"N.M. widower sues Alburquerque over sanctuary city policy\">taking legal action<\/a> against Governor Laura Kelly (D-KS) in an effort to prevent her from blocking the effects of a new law passed by the Republican legislature. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-zuckerberg-hit-with-lawsuit-alleging-malfeasance-related-to-influencing-2020-election\/\" title=\"Mark Zuckerberg Hit With Lawsuit Alleging Malfeasance Related to Influencing 2020 Election\">law prohibits individuals<\/a> who identify as transgender from making changes to their birth certificates and driver&#8217;s licenses.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Governor cannot pick and choose which laws she will enforce and which laws she will ignore,\u201d the lawsuit filed in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-ambulance-hijacked-with-hospital-patient-and-emt-inside\/\" title=\"Texas ambulance hijacked with hospital patient and EMT inside\">state district court<\/a> in Shawnee County reads.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, Kobach outlined his plan to ban people from changing their listed gender on birth certificates. He asked a federal judge to allow state officials to bar transgender individuals from altering their gender on official documents.<\/p>\n<p>Kobach&#8217;s lawsuit argues that the provisions of the new law are affected by Kansas&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-attorney-general-sues-to-prevent-birth-certificate-and-drivers-license-changes-by-transgender-kansans\/\" title=\"GOP AG sues to block transgender Kansans from altering birth certificates and licenses.\">recent transgender bathroom law<\/a>, which was passed by Republican legislators and overrides the governor&#8217;s veto.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-noem-effectively-bans-telemedicine-abortions-restricts-chemical-abortions-in-south-dakota\/\" title=\"Gov. Noem Effectively Bans Telemedicine Abortions, Restricts Chemical Abortions\u00a0In South Dakota\">law taking effect<\/a> at the beginning of July, Governor Kelly and other agencies have stated that Kansans can still update their documents, disregarding the new legislation. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Department of Revenue have disagreed with Kobach&#8217;s opinion and will maintain their policies regarding gender markers on birth certificates and driver&#8217;s licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Kobach&#8217;s lawsuit urges the governor and other officials to adhere to the Women&#8217;s Bill of Rights and issue driver&#8217;s licenses that reflect a person&#8217;s sex at birth, rather than allowing individuals to freely select their sex designation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone must stand up for the law, even if the Governor won\u2019t,\u201d the lawsuit reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is suing Gov. Laura Kelly (D-KS) to stop her from blocking a new law passed by the Republican legislature. The law prevents transgender Kansans from altering birth certificates and driver&#8217;s licenses. Kobach filed a lawsuit in state court after Kelly&#8217;s administration made certain announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1967196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1967196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}