A judge has agreed to allow the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas to intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to force the state to list the sex that people were assigned at birth on their driver’s licenses.
Sharon Brett, the state ACLU’s legal director, said in a statement that her group is “gratified” to join the case.
“For our clients and the entire community they represent, this case is about the privacy, dignity, and autonomy that comes from havingon their license, and about their right to be safe from the harassment they would face if forced to present inaccurate IDs that would essentially out them against their will in daily life,” she said.
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