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...
The 102 year old woman is identified as Ingeborg Sylim Rapoport,is pictured above with her husband.She received her doctorate from a German university yesterday tuesday,nearly 80 years after the Nazis prevented her from sitting the final exam to officially obtain it.She is an expert in children's infections,and she was presented with her PHD title by Hamburg's UKE University Medical Centre,yesterday,despite having completed her thesis on Diphtheria in 1938.She had studied Medicine in the northern port city and worked at its Israelite Hospital from 1937 to 1938 when she wrote her doctoral dissertation on Diphtheria.By then Hitler's regime had imposed racially motivated legal restrictions which barred her from being allowed to sit her oral exam and obtain her title because of her Jewish descent.Her professor in 1938 had issued a certificate stating he would have passed her thesis at the time if it had been legally possible to do so.She finally successfully sat her oral test in May,the Hamburg University said in a statement,adding she was probably the oldest person in the world to receive a doctorate.Three professors from Hamburg university's medical faculty traveled to her sitting room {house} in East Berlin,where the test was held.Burkhard Goeke,the UKE's Medical Director and Chairman,said they were gratified at being able to restore a piece of justice.''We can't make the injustice that occurred undone,ut our insights into the past shape our perspectives for the future''.
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