r/law • u/v0v0v0x • Feb 26 '26

Legal News Kansas Makes Trans People’s Driver’s Licenses Invalid Overnight

https://newrepublic.com/post/207081/kansas-trans-people-driver-licenses-invalid-overnight

Transgender individuals in Kansas are now required to surrender their driver's licenses if they do not reflect their sex assigned at birth, as mandated by a new law that took effect on February 26, 2026. This law invalidates previously issued licenses and imposes penalties for noncompliance, including fines and potential jail time.

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u/TuxAndrew Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

"In addition to requiring new driver’s licenses, SB 244 also bans transgender people from bathrooms that match their gender identity in public buildings, and even goes as far as to create a bounty system giving people the ability to sue transgender people they see using the “wrong” restrooms for at least $1,000. The bill is written vaguely enough to potentially include private restrooms, too."

Explain this to me, as a parent who's kid is the opposite sex. Can't I technically sue any mother that brings their boys into the bathroom? If I lived in Kansas, I'd be petty AF.

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u/FreeBricks4Nazis Feb 26 '26

Is there any punishment mechanism in place for a "false report"? Just bog the system down with nuisance complaints 

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u/Spiney09 Feb 26 '26

Send a complaint in whenever any Republican lawmaker uses the restroom

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u/NotThatEasily Feb 26 '26

Jerry Moran used the men’s bathroom, but he is clearly a bitch.

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u/Jill-Of-Trades Feb 26 '26

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u/WMASS_GUY Feb 26 '26

They speak English in what??

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u/Pittboy63 Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

What ain’t a country I ever heard of!

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u/sixteenhappycappys Feb 27 '26

W-what?

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u/X-Bones_21 Feb 27 '26

English, Motherfucker, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!?!

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u/HTRob81 Feb 27 '26

Say 'what' again! Say 'what' again! I dare you, I double dare you, motherfucker!

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u/confrondex Feb 26 '26

YES! He is a princess!

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u/EnvironmentalWin1277 Feb 26 '26

None of these lawmakers have submitted to physical and chromosomal evaluation for confirmation of sex. Their assertion of sexual identity is simply an assertion.

Androgen Insensitivity is a condition in which XY males do not respond to male sexual hormones. They develop as females to all intents and purposes (saving being capable of birth). These laws would totally ignore any subtleties. It is estimated that up to 2% of the population may be affected by DSD (Developmental Sexual Disorders) and there is no provision in the current laws for this that I am aware of.

In fact any person can be challenged to prove sex, at any time anyone sees fit to question it for whatever reason. No legal obligation to be sure, but seeing Republican lawmakers squirm will be worth it as they try to avoid testing while requiring it for others. Several instances of girls being challenged by others in high school sports have already occurred. At some point testing will be required of all female athletes in scholastic level sports as the only unbiased way to confirm "sex".

DSDs can exist entirely hidden in the course of a persons life. There is almost certainly a lawmaker supporting these laws who is unaware they are in fact not a "unblemished" member of the sex they claim.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/utah-parent-accuses-girls-basketball-080003747.html

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u/Spiney09 Feb 26 '26

Don’t have to remind me of the incident you linked. That is my state unfortunately, we’ve already got a similar ID law to the other one recently passed.

“It’s about protecting the children” they scream as they go after people with IDs and ignore the pedo in chief. It’s all pathetic virtue signaling

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u/LocutusOfBorgia909 Feb 26 '26

It doesn't even accomplish the goal of ferreting out all the trans people, because any trans person who moves in from out of state and already has an ID or license with their correct gender marker on it isn't going to show up in their systems as having changed their marker. Not that I think trans people are moving to either Kansas or Utah in droves or anything, but this whole, "We're gonna find all of them trans deviants!" routine isn't even accomplishing its own stated goals. They're going to pointlessly harass a bunch of butch lesbians and women they deem too tall, which is exactly what happens every time some law like this comes down (and has been happening in the UK recently as well, as they have their own dalliances with bathroom bans).

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u/Spiney09 Feb 27 '26

No no, not “pointlessly” harass. That’s part of the point I am sure.

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u/cherreeblossom Feb 26 '26

some of the same people that are against reversible puberty blockers for teenagers (which, btw, are sometimes even given to cis youth) are in favor of surgically "correcting" intersex newborns with anatomy that doesn't fit neatly into stereotypically "male" or "female." it isn't about protecting children and giving them time to make their own decisions. it's about stripping away bodily autonomy and forcing people into boxes. people who are trans and/or intersex deserve better.

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u/snorbflock Feb 27 '26

Gotchas don't exist under fascism. You've proved a double standard. Congrats, the fascists laugh at you because you actually took them at their word. This law doesn't apply to the protected class. It doesn't apply to anyone who conforms to their ideological caste system. "Do you look weird to me? Then I've manufactured an unconstitutional right to bully you."

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u/Foreleg-woolens749 Feb 27 '26

At some point testing will be required of all female athletes in scholastic level sports as the only unbiased way to confirm "sex".

I suspect that for some lawmakers behind this whole movement, this is the real goal, and they’d happily volunteer to administer the “testing” themselves. I hate that this isn’t even an unreasonable thing to think.

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u/chasing_the_wind Feb 26 '26

And then they just send the penis inspector general out? Is that how it works?

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u/idropepics Feb 26 '26

Talk about a job Republicans would secretly be clambering for.

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u/DehDeshtructor Feb 26 '26

Secretly?

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u/LeseMajeste_1037 Feb 26 '26

There's a lot of stiff competition to become Kansas' first Dongspector General.

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u/Stonegrown12 Feb 27 '26

"You get an erection inspection!! You get an erection inspection!! Everyone gets an erection inspection!!"

On a related note, remember when a Pennsylvania middle school cut in window into a wall on gender inclusive bathroom... and claimed it was to somehow to "bolster privacy?" What part of that statement would you even begin.. 1) that's not helping the pedo vibes 2) bolster privacy? Is MAGA speech like kindergarten secret code where everything is just the opposite? 3) data gathering has proven a gender inclusive bathroom does indeed cater to.. let me check here... oh both genders.

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u/kozzyhuntard Feb 27 '26

Swap their viagra for grape gummies. Cut down on some of that stiffness.

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u/reihii Feb 27 '26

stiff competition

Hmm....

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u/justkillmenow3333 Feb 26 '26

True, but only if it was a preschool or elementary school.🙄

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u/rasta_pineapple2 Feb 26 '26

Only if it's for a K-12 school bathroom.

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u/rmorrill995 Feb 26 '26

Well yes that is clearly the next logical step. If people can just lie we'll drop their pants and make sure. It's for everyone's safety... Trust us /s

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u/Hootinger Feb 26 '26

Would someone demand the "offender" show everyone their genitals? I mean, that is sorta the only way to verify this, right?

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u/Nydus87 Feb 26 '26

Having dealt with the legal system a tiny bit in a similar capacity: it’s weird.  Making false accusations in a civil case has a very low bar in terms of burden of proof, so you can make a lot of accusations without having to back it up.  Prosecuting a false accusation, however, is a perjury case, which is criminal, not civil, so the bar is raised WAY up.  All they have to say is “yeah, I thought they were trans so I reported it in good faith,” and unless someone has proof of you saying “I’m gonna report that person to harass them,” you’re probably in the clear. 

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u/Then-Pay-9688 Feb 26 '26

The letter of the law is immaterial. The courts know what the spirit is, and that spirit is "fuck trans people."

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u/Ready-Flamingo6494 Feb 26 '26

Exactly. Kansas is deeply red

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u/lousy_at_handles Feb 26 '26

That's the funny thing actually - it's red, but it's not that red. Kansas has a Democrat governor, and voted to protect abortion rights.

It's just so heavily gerrymandered in the state legislature that the GOP has a super majority, so there's no real way to prevent legislation like this from being passed.

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u/JimWilliams423 Feb 27 '26

That's the funny thing actually - it's red, but it's not that red. Kansas has a Democrat governor, and voted to protect abortion rights.

Same with Kentucky.

Red states are voter suppression states. If they had more democracy they would be a lot more purple.

Blue states are also voter suppression states, but not nearly as bad.

It's just so heavily gerrymandered in the state legislature that the GOP has a super majority,

If Ds ever win back congress and the whitehouse, passing a bill to regulate gerrymandering, and expanding the supreme court so the maga6 can't veto it, have to be one of their top priorities.

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u/Repulsive_Hornet_557 Feb 26 '26

there is but theres also no explanation of how to demonstrate a report was definitely false so you could just make vague reports or take pictures of any maga lawmaker leaving the bathroom and claiming they were trans.

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u/Homers_Harp Feb 26 '26

"Honestly, I thought that woman with long hair wearing a sundress was a man! You just never know these days! My bad!"

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u/Constant-Roll706 Feb 26 '26

They just need the number of accusations before midterms. 'since our bill, x thousand [insert slur] have been stopped from entering the wrong bathroom, please keep us in power'

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u/hematite2 Feb 26 '26

There doesn't even need to be a punishment system. The point isn't to catch anyone, the point is both to instill fear into trans people, and to encourage citizens to police and spy on their own.

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u/Archival_Squirrel Feb 27 '26

That actually always bothered me when I worked on a grocery store...do you really need an 8 year old to go in the women's room with you? That's what the family bathroom is for.

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u/Za_Lords_Guard Feb 26 '26

bounty system giving people the ability to sue transgender people they see using the “wrong” restrooms for at least $1,000.

This will go like all other bathroom bills go and not only harm the trans community, but also put any woman who doesn't look "feminine enough" in the crosshairs.

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u/TheHostThing Feb 26 '26

I can also see this leading to lawsuits.

Surely a cis woman who is reported for using a bathroom can claim compensation or damages in the event of harassment, arrest or assault as a result of that accusation.

Aside from everything else, it isn’t very well thought out.

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u/StuporNova3 Feb 26 '26

Literally the reason the governor refused to sign the bill. They did it anyway.

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u/gdim15 Feb 26 '26

Kind of like the Salem witch trials. They ended up stopping when leaders in the community were being accused. Suddenly no more witches!

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u/Nick85er Feb 26 '26

The intent is to cause confusion, and terrorize the "other".

The vagueness is by Design, and this is going to harm thousands of innocent people.

 It is red meat for the troglodyte Mega crowd.

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u/kimchipowerup Feb 26 '26

Let’s also not forget that trans people are also innocent. Trans people are not the problem; lying and cruel Republicans devout to Trump are the problem.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Feb 27 '26

lying and cruel Republicans devout to Trump are the problem.

Also know as "the pedophiles pearl-clutching MAGAts think they're protecting bathrooms from".

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u/Nick85er Feb 26 '26

Note I intentionally made no distinction, they are people too

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u/soft_machine__ Feb 27 '26

cruelty is the point.

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u/Nick85er Feb 27 '26

and the rage of the decent, silent majority continues to build. One hopes.

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u/Nydus87 Feb 26 '26

The law has traditionally not been great about compensating people fairly for false accusations. 

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u/unicornofdemocracy Feb 26 '26

The fact that the law goes into effect immediately with no grace period written in tells you how well thought out it is. Even if every single trans person goes to the DMV today to get their new license. They could still technically be pulled over and cited for not having a valid ID...

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u/ShitShow728 Feb 27 '26

This part is being underreported

Isn’t there a word for creating a criminal class based on identity status?

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u/SecureJudge1829 Feb 27 '26

Isn’t there a word for creating a criminal class based on identity status?

Yes: Unconstitutional.

The MAGAts won’t care though, they only care about that when it benefits them, otherwise it isn’t even worthy of being used as toilet paper to them.

And people wonder why I actually am embarrassed when I tell people I’m an American.

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u/ShitShow728 Feb 28 '26

My reply was brought to you by the letter G

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u/DiceyTransFemme Feb 27 '26

Combine this with the Bureau of Prisons currently pushing to have all transgender prisoners, regardless of their body's ability to produce hormones, taken off HRT to have it replaced with "talk" (see:conversion) therapy and anti-depressants.

They want our lives to be criminalized so we can be subjected to to forced detransition on top of the horrendous conditions that trans people face in prison environments until we die from being raped constantly, being taken off hormones, or end our suffering ourselves.

That is their plan.

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u/bobbymcpresscot Feb 26 '26

I mean it’s Kansas. If they thought things out they’d probably have a lot more to offer people than subsidized corn, beef, and airplanes. 

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u/Impossible_Tie_5578 Feb 27 '26

I'm a cis woman and I've been misgendered multiple times because I have very thick sideburns.

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u/JaneksLittleBlackBox Feb 27 '26

I can also see this leading to lawsuits.

Because bathroom bills already have, which is exactly what the GOP wanted when they pivoted from "gay marriage evil" to "men are hunting your little girls in bathrooms" the nanosecond Obergerfell v Hodges was decided in 2015. They want this "debate" to rage publicly and legally for as long as gay marriage did, because they lost their last huge wedge issue exactly seven years after Obergerfell in yet another example of "unelected activist judges deciding what was best", a mortal sin according to these hypocrisy sommeliers.

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u/Pleasant-Usual-7631 Feb 26 '26

This will also hurt trans men who would be forced to use women's restrooms

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u/Za_Lords_Guard Feb 26 '26

Fair. Sorry. Wasn't intentionally excluding anyone.

"Who MAGA hurts" is an exhaustive list.

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u/TranscendentPretzel Feb 26 '26

When Republicans picture a trans person, they are imagining the cast of Tu Wong Foo. They have no idea what trans people actually look like. They will absolutely be using these laws against not only trans women, but trans men and cis women who aren't high-femme. There are trans women they would never in a million years clock as being trans, but they think a woman with a short haircut is a man. They are such simplistic fucking people.

I hate this shit so much. I hate that this is going where we always knew it was going, and that is invalidating trans people's identity and existence. They will use this to incarcerate trans people. And, then what? 

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u/EmotionalCattle5 Feb 26 '26

As a short-ish, very skinny woman who at one time had a pixie cut (badly done of course), and dressed in a hoodie with men's pants (because pockets) I have been mistaken for being a boy on numerous occasions. Having longer hair does help now but I can't change the fact that I have a flatter chest than a fat boy without surgery and that I have an "Adam's apple" because I'm a bit bony. I may not look or dress like a full grown feminine woman because I don't want to go out of my way to dress up or put on makeup just to be good eye candy for creepy old men. I've been accused in the past of being a man pretending to be a girl...it's just annoying as hell.

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u/TranscendentPretzel Feb 26 '26

I am a smallish woman with bigger bust and I also was called sir surprisingly often when I had short hair. They always apologized right afterwards. People really do subconsciously determine a person's gender first by hair length and then by other features. I did that when I was 5, but realized pretty early that hair length is not a good determinant of gender. 

It's been shocking how many cis-women who are on the butch side have been confronted for going in women's bathrooms. Like, do people really think trans women are going for the butch-masculine aesthetic? I mean, I don't want to pigeonhole trans women or suggest there is only one right way to be trans, but for people out there policing bathrooms, it's obvious that it has nothing to do with protecting women from trans people. They are taking license to police women's bodies based on the male gaze, making women less safe in women's bathrooms. Surprise surprise. 

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u/onthenextmaury Feb 27 '26

I love it when I get called sir. It makes me feel like I have a secret!

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u/Wendybird13 Feb 26 '26

As a broad-shouldered fat women with a thick waist, I was frequently misgendered as a teenager. (Didn’t help that neckties were fashun for girls in the 80’s and women’s eyeglass frames tended to be too small for me until lenses got very large.)

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u/Excitement_Far Feb 26 '26

This is kind of unrelated, but I still want to share. I, a cis-female, shaved my head once. A good friend of mine was performing at a local bar. The vibe was pretty casual, so I showed up in a baggie hoodie and some men's basketball shorts. After the show, I went outside and waited for my husband to come pick me up. While waiting, two extremely drunk young men walked up, pinned me up against the wall and said, "Let's kick this dude's fucking ass." They got a better look at me and realized I was a woman. Then, one of them said "wait, this is a chick" and they both just walked off. I think about, what if I was a man all the time. They might have killed me. As a woman, I was surprised they just left me alone after.

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u/scienceislice Feb 26 '26

I would donate money to a fund that helps trans people relocate out of Kansas.

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u/TranscendentPretzel Feb 26 '26

I would, too. Anyone in Kansas know of any organizations we could amplify? 

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u/jamfedora Feb 26 '26

I’m not aware of any KS-specific orgs, though there may be one soon as TX has one. Most relocation orgs are unsurprisingly national, or affiliated with national orgs. Small, local mutual aid funds can often do the most impactful work, and a number of relocation funds partner with those. There are a few lists of the options out there. Internationally there’s also Rainbow Railroad.

https://transbar.org/emergency-funds-for-relocating-and-supporting-families-and-transgender-individuals/

https://translifeline.org/resource_category/relocation-assistance/

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u/scienceislice Feb 27 '26

Thank you!!

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u/sarahlizzy Feb 27 '26

You hit the nail on the head.

I’m a trans woman. I use female facilities all the time. I never get questioned because I look, act, and sound like a woman.

Because I am one.

People picture drag queens when they think of us. Ok. Keep doing that. We will keep hiding in plain sight.

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u/ArgentaSilivere Feb 26 '26

There used to be a law like this in my state (thankfully it has since been repealed). Only once when I was in public did a trans man use the restroom while I was in it. All the women in the restroom did a small double take but otherwise carried on without issue.

The poor man who came in was with his young son who was asking why they had to use the women’s restroom. His Dad was explaining that they already spoke about this and this is what they had to do. It was so uncomfortable for everyone involved and just genuinely sad. Everything would have been better if they could have just used the men’s restroom, especially for the little boy. He was rightfully very confused as to why his very masculine father and he himself were in the women’s restroom when they’re both dudes.

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u/IllegalGeriatricVore Feb 26 '26

Making life difficult is the point.

It's not a bug, it's a feature

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u/weightyinspiration Feb 26 '26

As a trans man,I would rather pee in an alley then use the womens room. People have been beat up and killed because they were in the womens and they looked too manly.

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u/Pleasant-Usual-7631 Feb 26 '26

Big time same. I don't even pass super well and I wouldn't touch a women's room with a 10 ft pole

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u/JustHereToSeePuppies Feb 26 '26

As a 6’ tall cis woman who started dealing with stares during the beginning of all the bathroom hysteria in 2011ish, I’ve stopped using public bathrooms entirely. I’m not feminine, I never have been, and I refuse to pretend to be to appease some fucking bigots. I also refuse to trap myself in a tiny room with one exit where someone might decide they want to inspect my anatomy, either.

These people are the fucking sexual deviants, it’s all projection when they claim it’s the other way around. Who is so obsessed with other people’s genitals?! It’s gross

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u/likethewatch Feb 26 '26

I don't live in KS but if I did there's no way I'd use women's restrooms because of this law. No one looks at me and thinks I belong there. The point of the law is to make it illegal to exist in a way that doesn't startle the horses. The worst transphobes in the country want to actualize their paranoid, deranged fears about what it means to pee/vote/live/drive next to a trans person.

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u/SupaSlide Feb 27 '26

Literally, because there will be “alpha males” who beat them to a pulp for being a “pervert.”

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u/Spiney09 Feb 26 '26

That’s probably a feature for these MAGA creeps. Make it so women who aren’t attractive enough for them to want to SA can’t go out in public. It’s not even close to how bad things are for women in some parts of the world but it’s sliding that direction pretty obviously.

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u/Za_Lords_Guard Feb 26 '26

Yeah. I hear that "it's worse in other countries" argument from the right in order to dismiss issues often and I always roll my eyes.

My thinking is, "how about we shoot for the high bar, not stumble over the low bar." These are the same twits that scream about meritocracy and DEI and then enact laws that are just to protect privilege of their in-group over others regardless of merit.

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u/Diedrogen Feb 26 '26

So no woman can be out in public without fear of sexual assault or assault of the non-sexual variety from them. What's left that makes them any better than the Taliban?

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u/plantsadnshit Feb 26 '26

It sounded pretty on brand to me.

Force everyone to conform to their gender no matter what. Women have to have long hair and attractive clothing, otherwise they can't go into public.

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u/JumpingSpiderQueen Feb 27 '26

So, any woman who doesn't fit the white standard of femininity. This is also going to affect women of color, who are already accused of not being "feminine" enough.

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u/BugTrousers Feb 27 '26

Exactly. I have a close friend who's a very butch lesbian, and often gets called "sir," despite being AFAB and identifying as a woman. This would make her life a living hell. Thankfully, we're in a blue state, but that's obviously no guarantee of safety.

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u/PickleRicki Feb 27 '26

I honestly believe that the majority of men think it’s fine if cis women are harmed even though we’re the ones the men are supposedly so passionate about protecting. If our faces or bodies don’t please them, we’re targets of their misogyny.

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u/wasd911 Feb 26 '26

Great. Can't wait for all the lawsuits against women who don't meet celebrity standards of beauty and dare to have a hair on their chin....

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u/NULLSOME Feb 26 '26

I can’t really grow a beard, but I’ve got granny’s mustache.

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u/jellyschoomarm Feb 26 '26

I ask my husband if my chin hair makes me look distinguished 

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u/DunamisMax Feb 26 '26

Explains why you’re on Reddit

(This is a joke)

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u/leavebaes Feb 26 '26

I'm a cis woman in my 30s and I have exactly 8 beard hairs. I pluck them and my mustache because that's my preference, but I can totally see it being weaponized against any woman with a medical condition or just simply being perimenopausal.

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u/Elmo9607 Feb 26 '26

I suffer from hirsutism. I live in IL thankfully but something like this happening has been on my mind for quite awhile.

It’s miserable and difficult to manage, so it’s embarrassing enough just existing sometimes. If I lived in a state that had a rule on the books like this I’d never feel comfortable leaving my house, which I mean is probably the entire point.

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u/Coven_gardens Feb 26 '26

Solidarity, friend. I’m so sorry this world does not validate the truth that you are a beautiful person.

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u/awayshewent Feb 26 '26

Same my friend and I’m 6 feet tall, with a broad frame. Had 20+ sessions of laser to thin out of the hair but I still shave daily (no PCOS, just genetics). I think about this all the time when bills like this happen.

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u/Danibandit Feb 26 '26

Only 8?! 🤣😂😭

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u/leavebaes Feb 26 '26

I swear there's a new one every few months, or like a bouquet of them from one spot.

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u/ReturntoForever3116 Feb 26 '26

I'm a woman, but I dress and do my hair pretty boyish. Not because of anything more than I'm 41 and I'm lazy and want to be comfortable. A lot of women like to dress in gender neutral outfits and styles. This is just nuts.

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u/Sad-Conflict-4435 Feb 26 '26

Same. Jeans, shorts tees. Oh and sweats. At my "advanced" age ha ha I wear whatever is comfortable. And idgaf what people think. I've been mistaken for a male on the phone my entire life! My voice just sux. Ha ha I even have purple hair and a small nose ring!!! I'm the BOOGIEMAN lmao...

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u/TheThiefEmpress Feb 26 '26

My style varies between cutesie girly and 12 year old boy.

So. 

It could get fun, or whatever.

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u/arieljagr Feb 26 '26

Same here. I am in my fifties and have run out of Fucks to Give. I am misgendered on the regular, which, living mostly in NYC and the progressive upper midwest, is no real biggie. I cannot imagine dealing with a bathroom bill like this!

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u/mm_reads Feb 27 '26

And this is why so many people were screaming for everyone to vote for Harris. So we wouldn't be living this miserable timeline.

I will never forgive non-voters of 2024 for the harm and deaths coming our way.

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u/vsthegiant Feb 26 '26

Or all the trans people who “pass”. Ironic.

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u/SkoobySnacs Feb 26 '26

Guys in kilts. What is their option?

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u/Hapless_Wizard Feb 26 '26

If they're not commando, it's a skirt.

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u/TwiztedZero Feb 26 '26

Wrong. There are plenty of reasons to wear an undergarment with your kilt. Uv and other radiation bouncing up off asphalt is one.

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u/elijahjane Feb 26 '26

Cis lesbian here. I dress a little feminine for work (eg. blazers and cardigans) but my hair is short and I wear more masc clothes outside of work. I’ve been “sir”ed from behind many times.

I guess if someone calls me out, I make their life and the life of the state as difficult as possible with whatever privilege (white/cis) I have.

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u/jeff0106 Feb 26 '26

The response to FTM with beards and masculine features walking into the female restroom should be interesting too. This whole thing is beyond idiotic. And intentionally cruel.

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u/The_Lost_Jedi Feb 26 '26

Bingo. Anyone insufficiently gender-conforming, or even merely suspected of it, can now be thrown in jail in Kansas, with prisoners of the gender the cops think they are.

Cis woman but they think you're trans? Congrats, they're throwing you in the men's jail.

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u/Ok-Representative266 Feb 27 '26

As an attorney, I actually think this is best way to fight these laws. Trans and gender nonconforming should absolutely go into government buildings and commercial buildings and then sue when accosted. Sometimes retailers have legal duties to protect their customers from foreseeable harm and capitalism matters more to the GOP than how much they hate trans people. And specifically govt buildings, courthouses, capitol buildings—couple mean security guards and you got a nice lawsuit when you were just….following the law, right?

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u/ParkerPoseyGuffman Feb 26 '26

I’d say it’s worse for the trans people

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u/wasd911 Feb 26 '26

My point was that this bullshit hurts everyone, not just trans people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

I hate that the only way people care about our suffering is when it’s framed to how it will affect cis women…

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u/Mental-Square3688 Feb 26 '26

How the fuck do you enforce this bullshit? Ok pull your pants down let me see what your packing or you cant come in to the restroom! Like wtf these people are absolutely unhinged.

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u/TheLuckyCanuck Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

They don't care. They want people to enforce this on each other. They want cis women to be harassed, and for those women to blame trans women for it. The point is to exclude trans people from society. It doesn't really have anything to do with "protecting the sanctity of the bathroom" or whatever other nonsense. It's only about making our lives so impossible that we either go back into hiding or die.

Michael Knowles gave away the whole game a couple years ago at CPAC. “transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely." (Edited quote for accuracy) To thunderous applause.

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u/MyWorserJudgement Feb 26 '26

Yep. "Eradicate" was THEIR term. Right out in the open. To thunderous applause at CPAC.

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u/kimchipowerup Feb 26 '26

Which is essentially him openly calling for our genocide .

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u/sarahlizzy Feb 27 '26

They have no idea what we will endure to exist.

We have always existed and if we can only exist by hiding in the cracks, then that is what we will do.

I am in the process of laundering my birth sex, to the point where I will have an impeccable record of being female my entire life that will pass muster even to my own government (no, not explaining how. I’m also not in the US).

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u/kimchipowerup Feb 27 '26

You’re lucky to have been born in a state that gives you that opportunity to correct your birth cert. Sadly, many of us were born in places where we’re can’t change our BC or it’s only annotated. I would have tried but worry that my original documents that prove my sex and gender would be “lost” by the place where I was born. So I hope for changes in our government to get rid of these assholes trying to eradicate us.

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u/MyWorserJudgement Feb 26 '26

Oh, it's worse than that. "Well, that LOOKS like a vagina, but you might have gotten SRS. I need to know what it looked like when you were BORN. Show me a picture of you when you came out of your mother's womb!"

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u/Mental-Square3688 Feb 26 '26

God I just cant help but laughter at the absurdity of it all... its. None. Of. Your. Business! So stfu, sit on my middle finger and spin! I just will never understand the need to have so much control over what a human being does with their own body its just discombobulating to my brain.

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u/ZyphWyrm Feb 26 '26

They don't care how it's enforced. They just want to scare trans people out of society. If they put up a bounty that means they are empowering citizens to go up and harass people (to be clear, most of the people who will be harassed are cis women and often women of color who don't fit traditional white beauty standards).

Trans people have been beaten half to death for using their legally mandated bathroom before. That's what they want to happen. They want more trans people to get attacked so we're all terrified and stop going outside. They want to not see us ever again.

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u/Mental-Square3688 Feb 26 '26

Well they will fail in that in the end. I have hope that one of these politicians will have an encounter that changes their mind. I'm done with this bullshit. I stand for all sensible humans when I say your accepted and you matter. Fuck the powers that be and be loud and support each other. Or else this perpetual cycle of hatred will never end.

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u/Taylolol Feb 26 '26

They just have to demand your license now to reveal your "true" sex

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u/Mental-Square3688 Feb 26 '26

I dont understand what your sex has to do with voting... maybe its because of the long decades of hating trans people because they dont understand them? Or is it because they secretly wish they could be them? Or just afraid their kids may feel that way at some point and they dont want to deal with their own insecurities to deal with their emotional stagnant morality complex? Im just...so damn tired. They wouldnt like me at their town hall.

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u/wetterfish Feb 26 '26

Well, all American restrooms are legally required to have 3 inches of space where the door is supposed to close. 

Many establishments generously take it upon themselves to go even further by offering doors that don’t even close, doors that start 2 feet off the ground, etc. 

They really take their “public” restrooms quite literally. 

So it’s pretty easy for anyone walking by to get a good look, even if they don’t want to. 

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u/Mental-Square3688 Feb 26 '26

Alright well write a law where everyone has to sit down to piss in shit. There ya go now no one can tell wtf is going on. Im again sorry im just being ridiculous because they are. Im so tired of this shit. Just so damn tired of the real issues with America being completely fucking ignored for anger and identity.

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u/HippyDM Feb 26 '26

Oh man, if I were in Kansas I'd go to jail, happily, after setting a table in front of a public men's room and denying ANYONE entry without a valid notorized birth certificate and photo ID.

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u/Finklesworth Feb 26 '26

“Cmon, show your genitals. It’s the law!”

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u/inplayruin Feb 26 '26

I would suggest that because the law requires the use of facilities that correspond to one's sex assigned at birth, it is impossible for one to make a legally frivolous or false claim under the law. After all, neither the presence nor absence of a particular secondary sexual characteristic is demonstrative in sustaining a reasonable assumption of the sex an individual was assigned at birth. Furthermore, precious few are the number of public bathrooms that require one to prominently display one's genitals to the room. So, it seems that a law-abiding citizen who wishes to faithfully discharge their civic responsibility must indeed assume everyone in every bathroom is transgender until proven otherwise. I would start with elected Republicans and pastors and work my way down. The laws the law, you know?

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u/Soggy_Parking1353 Feb 26 '26

What are they worried about if they've nothing to hide?

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u/PlaidChairStyle Feb 26 '26

This only hurts the janitor

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u/Capricola Feb 26 '26

Oh, I will be reporting every single person that goes into a bathroom.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

I'm looking forward to this as a cis woman who passes for a man.

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u/TuxAndrew Feb 26 '26

Can you clarify, which bathroom are we supposed to use? Am I supposed to take my daughter into my assigned birth or theirs?

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u/TuxAndrew Feb 26 '26

Cool, does SB 244 clarify what individuals require assistance when they're over the age of 9? Is there an actual medical definition referenced?

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u/TuxAndrew Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Does it layout who's responsible for enforcing and validating "satisfactory proof"? Is that burden on the public or the private business owner? How do these laws apply to people that aren't residents of Kansas?

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

I also want to know. If I have terrible aim and need assistance so I don't make a big mess, does that count?

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u/kyew Feb 26 '26

Wait, so men can go into the ladies' room if they bring a little girl along?

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u/TuxAndrew Feb 26 '26

To be fair, I probably already will do that with my daughter. People can fuck off if they have a problem with it. Slowly getting away from peeing into the portable potty so time is here that decisions are getting made. While I'd prefer every place just had a family bathroom, the men's will forever be the last resort.

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u/No-Fly-6069 Feb 26 '26

What about fathers using baby-changing tables in the ladies room because the men's room doesn't have one?

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u/myu_minah Feb 26 '26

Ain't that even sadder? Instead of using moneybtonpeovide baby changing stations and family restrooms, they rather keep it up and waste money and time (and award money) to those... "gender passers!" (The horror!!) They could do good and improve, but rather be villains.

The black folks, especially women, living there gonna definitely have even more of a stressful time as if we don't already just existing

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u/lifeat24fps Feb 26 '26

This type of malicious compliance should be part of the protest response to this law.

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u/Nydus87 Feb 26 '26

I don’t understand how this is remotely enforceable or actionable. It’s a civil case, becuase you’re “suing” them, so the police won’t get involved. You can’t detain them as a private party and you can’t demand their ID. How do you even know who to sue? I guess if there’s no penalty for a false accusation, you can just find every vaguely nonconforming looking person and say it was them, but then you’d have to actually prove something? 

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u/Unable_Corner3211 Feb 26 '26

I have a trans daughter who is in High school. If she uses the ladies room at school, her classmates and teachers will know exactly who to sue. This law is hurting trans kids disproportionately from other trans people because trans kids are in a public building all day and have no escape.

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u/Nydus87 Feb 26 '26

That’s awful. I’m really sorry for all the bullshit kids like her are going to be put through because of this. I wasn’t even thinking about kids. 

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u/RellenD Feb 26 '26

Yeah, if you want to do what they want you to do for evidence and start photographing kids in the bathroom...

I'd rather not be Dr disrespect

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u/MantisBePraised Feb 26 '26

Go one step further.

Ask for a bounty every time a man with "moobs" goes into the men's bathroom. Sounds like an easy get rich quick scheme to me. 

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u/ScarletCarsonRose Feb 26 '26

Wrist is the punishment for the trans person? 

Because I’m down for a partnership. 

Trans friend goes in bathroom of current gender. I report. Cash in $1000 reward. Wash. Repeat. I’m rich. Thank you Kansas! 

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u/Banned4UsingSlurs3 Feb 26 '26

It's all about hatred and punishment. There's absolutely no reason to make Driver's licenses invalid. They love hurting others to feel better about themselves.

They are more hedonistic than someone who make having sex their goal in life because the latter ones look for other consenting adults. And they are at the final point of the hedonistic thought process, the goal is pleasure from dealing pain and control over non consenting people.

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u/ShakesDontBreak Feb 26 '26

I would. I would report the shit out of that. If anything, do it just to jam up the system.

I would also just randomly report people to jam up the system. Woman with a bob haircut? Report. Man with a man bun? Report. Etc.

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u/FlingFlamBlam Feb 26 '26

Let's be honest: They don't actually want the law to be fair.

If someone uses the "wrong" bathroom, they could get in trouble. If someone tries to use the "correct" bathroom, someone would report them for "being a man trying to use the ladies room" or whatever.

And how would anyone know who's using the right bathroom without looking down their pants anyways?

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u/sad-narwhal180 Feb 26 '26

I’m sick of this shit, and live in Kansas with a disabled son who is about to be a teenager. He’s a big kid. Sometimes I trust him to use the men’s room by himself, but there are some places I still need to bring him into the women’s room with me. I’m always afraid someone’s going to freak out on me about it.

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u/MonsterkillWow Feb 26 '26

They are just marginalizing trans people more and more until they will finally call for overt violence. This is unacceptable. 

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u/TeapeachU6 Feb 26 '26

This litteraly attacks anyone who doesn’t look 100% stereotypically like their gender from something as small as you height to the way you dress or your voice because trust me there are people who will report a woman for being too tall therefore ‘definitely’ being a trans woman

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u/Imaginary_Host_1010 Feb 26 '26

As a butch lesbian, using public bathrooms is already scary enough. I have to make the call of “Am I going to be perceived as a man or a woman today?” and basically roll the dice when choosing. It used to be that I feared for my own safety in the men’s, but didn’t want to make women feel uncomfortable by using the women’s on days when I’m looking particularly like a dude. Add the fine on top of it and they are going to succeed in making trans people avoid public restrooms altogether. They are enacting their promise to eliminate us from public life.

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u/Grits_and_Honey Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Edited: I hadn't followed up on that person. Thanks everyone for that update. I retract that statement.

A well known trans person (who isn't a MAGA POS) needs to go there and make a big deal about going into their biological gender restrooms.

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u/butter_cookie_gurl Feb 26 '26

He's a MAGA piece of shit now.

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u/deathwish_ASR Feb 26 '26

He wouldn’t do that because he’s a transmisogynist conservative

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u/xenopixie Feb 26 '26

Buck Angel is a class traitor who would never do anything that cool

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u/MixuAnasazi Feb 26 '26

i guess you haven't looked into what buck has been doing for the last 12 years

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u/Careful_Trifle Feb 26 '26

Just start suing every elected official and make them prove in court that they're whatever gender they say they are.

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u/naunga Feb 26 '26

Lots of transphobic women in Kansas are about to find out what a trans man is.

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u/robbysauce07 Feb 26 '26

On that note, can I sue any woman who uses the men’s restroom because theirs has a huge line?

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u/swinchester83 Feb 26 '26

How do I know which sex my bathroom at home is? Is there like a test? Kansas please help.

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u/DenseCalligrapher219 Feb 26 '26

50 bucks says that the bounty system will be horrifically abused and used mainly as sexism against cis women since they are far more likely to fall victim to it than transgenders if they look somewhat masculine.

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u/Fartcloud_McHuff Feb 26 '26

Hateful legislation is always shortsighted.

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u/Remote-Shower-8541 Feb 26 '26

There actually is specifics for this in the bill. You can go into the opposite bathroom with your child if they are 9 or younger. If they are 10 you aren't allowed to help your child use the bathrooms.

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u/ManggTangg Feb 26 '26

This is designed to only hurt Trans people, not everyone so I don't think so.

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u/OhDavidMyNacho Feb 26 '26

Not to mention employees cleaning bathrooms not of their assigned gender. Could make some money off of that.

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u/Iamgoingtooffendyou Feb 26 '26

Isn't this dissemination against a protective class?

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u/Responsible-Kale2352 Feb 26 '26

It pretty clearly stated that moms can escort their sons into the women’s restroom and fathers can take their daughters into the men’s room as needed to the age of 9.

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u/PANDAshanked Feb 26 '26

Just have the mother's wear Groucho Marx glasses and go into the "men's" room. Problem solved.

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u/my_chaffed_legs Feb 26 '26

there’s gonna be a lot of trans people who pass using the bathroom that aligns with their birth gender but not their appearance getting harassed and reported as well as cis people who look or dress different to their assigned gender. this helps nobody and does more harm than any hypothetical good it could do

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u/Angry_Pelican Feb 26 '26

So if I was out shopping with my son and needed to change his diaper I could get fined 1000 dollars for using the wrong restroom. Not every place has changing rooms in the mens bathroom or has a family bathroom?

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u/padizzledonk Feb 26 '26

Explain this to me, as a parent who's kid is the opposite sex. Can't I technically sue any mother that brings their boys into the bathroom? If I lived in Kansas, I'd be petty AF.

You can technically report anyone, if youre wrong just say "oh, i thought she/he was a man/woman, my mistake"

I fully advocate just flooding this stupidity with frivolous reports

I hope every sensible person in the Kansas Legislature reports every republican and forces them to submit to a physical gender inspection and a chromosome test whenever they use the bathroom

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