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...
According to one of my reporter Chinenye Genevieve,who sent in all this pictures with the caption ''Six people were reportedly found dead and two others unconscious earlier today at 50-50 Hotel,located around Uyo street in Umuahia,Abia State.The hotel is a brothel and the girls living there have had experience of mysterious slaps some weeks back that left one person unconscious.This incident of strange slaps made all the occupant of the brothel to leave,only for the owner to recruit news ladies from other cities,Unfortunately,3 ladies and their customers are today not alive to tell the story of what happened or what befallen them over night that left them dead.All the six dead bodies have been deposited at the morgue as at press time and the two unconscious body taken to the hospital.The Nigerian Police has cordoned off the hotel,as crowd builds up around the environment to catch a glimpse of what happened.We also received report off the Nigerian Police shooting canisters of teargas into a near by Hospital {Life Essential Hospital} in a bid to disperse the crowd''.Nawahoo.More photos below.
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