In addition to the driver’s license provisions, the law bans transgender people from using bathrooms matching their gender identity in public buildings and creates a bathroom bounty hunter system allowing citizens to sue transgender people they encounter in restrooms for at least $1,000 in damages, including potentially in private restrooms. The bill takes effect immediately upon publication in the Kansas Register rather than the standard July 1 effective date—giving transgender Kansans just days between the override and the invalidation of their identity documents.
The consequences for noncompliance could escalate quickly. Under Kansas law, driving without a valid license is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine—though first-time offenders are more likely to face a citation and fine. A conviction, however, triggers an automatic 90-day license suspension. If a person drives during that suspension, they face a charge of driving on a suspended license, which carries a mandatory minimum of five days in jail. Kansas already requires county jails to house inmates by sex assigned at birth.
Every day the US gets closer to becoming like Afghanistan, a place that they mock for having no freedom or tolerance, but have plenty of religious persecution.
You mean the country we conquered and ruled with an iron fist for 23 years?
Brother, we’re already there. All we can hope for is a kind of grassroots insurrection to get occupying paramilitary out of our neighborhoods
Good luck!
The Republicans looked at Saudi Arabia and said, “Yes please.”