Judge issues temporary injunction blocking gender marker changes on driver’s licenses

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A Shawnee County judge on Monday issued a temporary injunction that blocks Gov. Laura Kelly's administration from allowing transgender Kansans to change their gender markers on driver’s licenses.

District Judge Teresa Watson granted Attorney General Kris Kobach's request for the injunction, ruling that a new law called the Women's Bill of Rights requires the sex
designation on driver’s licenses to reflect someone's biological sex at birth.

She found that the threat of injury to the state should take precedence over any harm the injunction would have on the five transgender Kansans who intervened in . . .

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