'It was time for Kansas to move past its outdated and discriminatory anti-transgender policy,' said Gov. Laura Kelly.
Associated PressIn this Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019, file photo, Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly answers questions about her executive order to ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination in state hiring and employment decisions during a news conference at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kansas. Kelly's administration will allow transgender people to change their birth certificates as part of a settlement to end a federal lawsuit.TOPEKA, Kan.
Lambda Legal, a national LGBTQ-rights group that represented the individuals and group suing Kansas, said only Ohio and Tennessee have similar policies in place and that they’re being challenged in court too.The Kansas lawsuit argued that the state’s policy violated the right of transgender people to due legal process and equal protection under the law.
Also, LGBTQ-rights advocates said, once a conflict between a birth certificate and other documents became known, transgender individuals faced discrimination. Supporters of the Brownback administration’s policy said at the time that birth certificates are historical records that document the information known at the time. Brownback’s spokeswoman added that Kansas law allows only minor corrections in birth certificates and “changing the sex designation is not a minor change.”
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