Kansas sends letters to transgendered people -- surrender your driver's license

[AverageOldGuy]

Last edited Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:01 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Erin In The Morning blog

Today, transgender people across Kansas are reporting receiving letters from the Kansas Division of Vehicles stating that they must surrender their driver's licenses and that their current credentials will be considered invalid upon the law's publication in the Kansas Register on Thursday. Should any transgender person be caught driving without a valid license, they could face a class B misdemeanor carrying up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Kansas already requires county jails to house inmates according to sex assigned at birth. The letter, obtained by Erin in the Morning, marks one of the most significant erosions of transgender civil rights in the United States to date.

Read more: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people

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The full letter is at the link, Erin In the Morning Blog.

I'm' speechless. But, then, this is Kansas.

[wcmagumba]

1. My home state's leadership disgusts me...

I am an old cis white guy but I fully support my LGBTQ friends and neighbors against this prejudice and hatred from the Republicans...

[Skittles]

8. all REAL men do

yes INDEED

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. I'm not surprised at all.

[The Wizard]

3. Kansas

Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

[JMCKUSICK]

4. Now wait just a gosh darn minute there, The Wizard

There's a whole lot of Montanans upset that you're swiping their motto.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

5. Yikes

[Gaugamela]

6. This law serves no purpose except to titillate right-wing bigotry.

[Skittles]

9. which makes it all the more sickening

shame on ANYONE taking part in this, it's UNAMERICAN and disgusting beyond belief

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. Unfuckingbelievable....

[mountain grammy]

10. That is chilling

My god, Kansas. What the hell?

[Figarosmom]

11. And since they got letters that means government

Knows where they live. I wouldn't put it past them to have cops or state police watching their houses to arrest them as soon as they get on the road.

[HeartsCanHope]

12. We should start a GoFundMe for the first person this law arrests.

That's money I willing to lay out! Sick to death of this bigotry and hate! Everyone has the right to be who they are.

[Bayard]

13. I didn't know transgender people were such bad drivers.....

More hard won rights being taken away every day. Kansas sounds like they'd like to go back to stoning.

[Initech]

14. Literal Nazi shit. The legacy that human rat shit Rush Limbaugh left behind.

[moniss]

15. That GQP is bound and determined to

look in everybody's pants.

[electric_blue68]

16. WTF?!!

[Solly Mack]

17. This should scare all decent people.

[Talitha]

18. OMG, it's not from The Onion.

If legitimate, this is horrifying.

[johnp3907]

19. Well, at least they appologized.

[hunter]

20. And then they'll wonder why their best and brightest, straight or not, are leaving.

There are only a few counties in Kansas where the population is increasing. Overall population growth in Kansas has been lower than the U.S.A. as a whole.

[MuirHero]

21. Doesn't Kansas have a Democratic governor?

[hunter]

23. She vetoed it. Veto was overridden.

Rural Republican U.S.A. has no idea how badly they are getting screwed or who is screwing them.

Kansas has 105 counties. Only six of those counties have increasing populations.

[turbinetree]

22. SO these electors passed a law to discriminate, but they have senators and congressional people at the state

and federal level...............let a fucking traitor presiding in the white house a 34 count fraudster and sexual abuser, and they will let him and his gang roam around the state...........I forgot the Koch's run the state.............the same organization that helped Stalin............

[Iggo]

24. That's some Nazi shit. We are there, kids.

[BidenRocks]

25. What holds someone to Kansas

unless you're a farmer or rancher?
Honest. I've never been there.

[NBachers]

26. "Stay in your homes. We know where you live. Authorities are stationed outside. A gas van is on the way to pick you up."

[Historic NY]

27. And then when they do get stopped and don't exactly fit the visible description then what..

Kansas don't you some wheat to grow instead of engaging in stupid games with people.

[SomewhereInTheMiddle]

28. Can't people just go to ta neighboring state to get a new licence? Colorado might do. nt

But that might be giving up, and they would not be able to vote in Kansas.

Back to the old ways - Throw the bums out!!!