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Overnight, hundreds of people across one red state have been suddenly left without legal identification.
Transgender people living in Kansas began receiving letters this week notifying them that driver’s licenses and birth certificates that did not match their sex assigned at birth would be invalid starting on Thursday.
The sudden revocation of legally obtained IDs was the result of a new anti-trans law that was enacted after state lawmakers overrode the Democratic governor’s veto last week. The measure went into effect almost immediately after it passed — an unusual move in a state where new laws usually take effect on July 1 — offering no chance for people to come into compliance with the law.
The new law reportedly stripped approximately 1,500 transgender Kansans of their driver’s licenses, and another 1,800 birth certificates are also affected.
