Judge sides with pro-Trump AG in Kansas, orders DMV to stop allowing transgender drivers to change sex on license

BEDMINSTER TOWNSHIP, NJ - NOVEMBER 20: (L to R) President-elect Donald Trump and Kris Kobach, Kansas secretary of state, pose for a photo following their meeting with president-elect at Trump International Golf Club, November 20, 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration.

Donald Trump and Kris Kobach (via Drew Angerer/Getty Images).

A Kansas state court judge sided with with former general counsel of the beleaguered We Build the Wall group Monday and ordered the state’s motor vehicle department to stop allowing transgender people to change the listing for their sex on their driver’s licenses.

District Judge Teresa Watson’s order was handed down just three days after the state’s attorney general and Steve Bannon colleague Kris Kobach (R) began a lawsuit to challenge the state’s Democratic governor, Laura Kelly.

In his lawsuit, Kobach framed the issue as one of women’s rights and argued that Kelly illegally directed the Department of Revenue’s Division of Vehicles and other agencies to disregard the newly-passed law billed as a “Women’s Bill of Rights.” SB 180, passed by the Republican state legislature over Kelly’s veto on July 1, defines “sex” as “such individual’s biological sex, either male or female, at birth.” The new law provides no alternative definition for transgender, nonbinary, or intersex individuals and expressly requires that documents such as driver’s licenses reflect biological sex at birth rather than an individual’s gender identity.

Kobach said in the filing that he was bringing the case “reluctantly” in order “stop letting people select their sex designation at will.”

“Someone must stand up for the law, even if the Governor won’t,” demanded Kobach in the complaint.

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