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“We're talking about holding someone for up to 48 hours and forcing them to prove their citizenship status simply because of an ice detainer or an administrative warrant. Not a judicial warrant that's been signed by a judge, an ICE detainer,” Logan DeMond, director of policy and research at the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, said at the hearing.

A Kansas law invalidating the driver's licenses and birth certificates of transgender residents who changed their gender on the documents took effect Thursday.

A series of bills that recently passed the Kansas House are causing alarm for voting rights groups in Kansas. The bills focus on everything from voting deadlines to a complete repeal of mail-in-only ballot elections.

Two transgender Kansans are suing the state's attorney general Kris Kobach, as well as three other state officials, saying that a draconian new anti-trans law violates Kansas' Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Two transgender Kansas residents have filed a lawsuit challenging the new law that requires them to list the sex at birth on their driver’s licenses.

A legal challenge is underway attempting to block enforcement of the new Kansas law that requires transgender residents to surrender their driver's licenses and to use public restrooms on government property in accordance with their sex assigned at birth. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas filed the lawsuit in Douglas County District Court on Wednesday on behalf of two transgender men who live in Lawrence.

Two transgender people in Kansas have filed a lawsuit to block a new state law that invalidated hundreds of residents' driver's licenses by requiring they reflect the holders' birth sex rather than their gender identities. The law, which took effect Thursday, allows those in violation of the law to "surrender" their licenses in exchange for new ones that match their birth sex.

The state's new anti-transgender law is facing a court challenge led by the ACLU. Senate Bill 244 took effect Feb. 26 after the Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Legislature overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.

Two transgender men in Kansas filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to strike down a new state law that invalidated the driver's licenses and birth certificates of more than 1,000 transgender people. The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the plaintiffs, who claim in the lawsuit, opens new tab, filed in Kansas state court, that the law violates their rights to equality, due process and privacy under the state constitution.