The Costly Cruelty of the Kansas Anti-Trans Driver’s License Law

Victoria Kelly moved across the border from Missouri to Kansas about four years ago in search of more physician-assistant job opportunities and life in a bigger city. It was also around this time that she came out as trans. Back then, the ability to change the gender marker on a Kansas driver’s license was held up in court, so her first Kansas license had her legal female name with a marker for male. “Anytime I had to pull that out and use that, I had to answer a lot of questions and got a lot…