A NEW KANSAS LAW HAS EFFECTIVELY INVALIDATED THE DRIVER’S LICENSES AND OTHER GOVERNMENT-ISSUED DOCUMENTS OF TRANSGENDER RESIDENTS, LEAVING MANY IN LEGAL AND PERSONAL LIMBO.(PHOTO).
Kansas driver’s license law puts some transgender residents in ID limbo A new Kansas law has effectively invalidated the driver’s licenses and other government-issued documents of transgender residents, leaving many in legal and personal limbo. Senate Bill 244, which went into effect immediately after the legislature overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto, requires that the gender listed on a driver’s license align with the state’s binary definition of male and female. The law also directs the state registrar to “correct” birth certificates that do not match these definitions. Unlike similar restrictions in other states, Kansas’ law retroactively invalidates previously issued documents. Legal advocates warn that the law threatens the privacy and safety of transgender residents, forcing them to disclose their gender identity in situations ranging from employment applications to renting property or opening bank accounts. The law also restricts bathroom use to the sex assigned at birth and amen...
As adapted from an international article.Medical experts have called for a permanent ban on selling cigarrattes to anyone born in this century in a bid to eradicate smoking from Britain entirely.The radical plan would see the age limit for buying tobacco.Currently set at 18 rise every year until the last cigarette smokers died out,at which point smoking would be illegal for everyone.Doctors have asked the powerful British medical Association to lobby the Government for a ban on tobacco sales to people born after the year 2000.Smoking causes diseases such as lung cancer and emphesyma. 
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