Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a petition in federal court asking a judge to end a mandate requiring Kansas to allow transgender individuals to alter their birth certificates.
If Kobach is successful, those who identify as transgender could be prevented from altering their birth certificates to reflect their gender identities if the state’s Republican attorney general is successful with the legal move he initiated on June 23. He does not seek to reverse past alterations, only to prevent their occurrence in the future.
Critics asserted that the challenged policy prevented transgender people from legally changing their identities and procuring new driver’s licenses and Social Security cards after transitioning….