Kansas is one of five states to prohibit trans people from changing the gender marker on their licenses, but it is the first to pass a law that retroactively cancels licenses that were already changed.
Jaelynn Abegg, a singer-songwriter who also drives for Lyft, said she is moving because of Kansas' new law.
“It is a continuation of the message that the Legislature has been sending out for years now, and that is that transgender people are not welcome in Kansas,” she said.
Two anonymous trans residents sued Kansas last month, arguing that the law violates state protections for personal autonomy, privacy, equality, due process and freedom of speech.
Protesters in Topeka spoke out against the Kansas law that invalidates hundreds of driver's licenses and birth certificates for transgender people.
A spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Revenue told the Kansas Reflector that the law invalidated about 1,700 licenses.
Some trans residents, like Matthew Neumann, said they still haven’t received any notification regarding their licenses. »