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2026年1月13日，美国华盛顿特区的美国最高法院外，跨性别权利活动人士聚集于此。路透社/泰龙·西乌/资料图片
- 摘要
- 法律要求身份证显示出生时性别
- 美国公民自由联盟代表原告，声称该法律违反平等和隐私权
- 诉讼指控多项违宪行为
2月27日（路透社）- 堪萨斯州两名跨性别男性周五提起诉讼，要求废除一项新州法律，该法律使超过1000名跨性别者的驾照和出生证明失效。
美国公民自由联盟（ACLU）代表原告提起诉讼，这些原告在堪萨斯州法院提起诉讼，声称该法律违反了他们根据州宪法享有的平等权、正当程序权和隐私权。
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这项全面的法律使堪萨斯州成为美国唯一一个废除此前批准的身份证件性别标记变更的州，这是共和党主导的立法机构限制跨性别者权利的更广泛努力的一部分。
该法律于周四生效，要求州居民将驾照和出生证明上的性别标识改为出生时被分配的性别，并禁止未来更改这些文件上的性别。
该法律还禁止跨性别者使用政府大楼中与其出生时性别不符的多隔间浴室，并授权私人公民起诉违反该法律的人。
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以化名提起诉讼的原告表示，该法律将要求他们在每次出示身份证件时披露自己的跨性别身份，并且在使用公共浴室时面临骚扰和暴力风险。他们表示将在案件审理期间寻求一项临时阻止该法律生效的命令。
堪萨斯州官员周四表示，已有超过1000名州居民的身份证件被认定无效。受影响的居民必须支付新驾照的费用。
共和党籍堪萨斯州总检察长克里斯·科巴赫的办公室未立即回应置评请求。诉讼中的被告包括科巴赫的办公室以及负责颁发身份证件和维护政府大楼的州机构。
至少有其他八个州，包括得克萨斯州、佛罗里达州和印第安纳州，已禁止此类变更，其中几项法律正在法院受到挑战。
美国跨性别者在州和国家层面面临日益严格的限制。共和党总统唐纳德·特朗普自去年重返办公室以来已发布一系列针对跨性别者权利的行政命令。
一项特朗普指示称，美国政府将只承认两种性别：男性和女性。其他命令试图将跨性别运动员排除在女子体育赛事之外，并要求美国护照申请人列出其出生时被分配的性别。
科巴赫的办公室在2023年提起诉讼，声称此前允许的驾照性别标记变更根据州法律已属非法。去年州法院驳回了这些论点。
在堪萨斯州立法机构推翻民主党州长劳拉·凯利的否决后，州议员随后提出了该法案，后来该法案成为法律。
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Kansas sued over new transgender ID and bathroom law
February 27, 2026 6:49 PM UTC / Daniel Wiessner
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Transgender rights activists gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 13, 2026. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo
- Summary
- Law requires identification to show sex at birth
- ACLU represents plaintiffs claiming law violates equality and privacy rights
- Lawsuit alleges numerous constitutional violations
Feb 27 (Reuters) – Two transgender men in Kansas filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to strike down a new state law that invalidated the driver’s licenses and birth certificates of more than 1,000 transgender people.
The American Civil Liberties Union is representing the plaintiffs, who claim in the lawsuit, filed in Kansas state court, that the law violates their rights to equality, due process and privacy under the state constitution.
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The law makes Kansas the only U.S. state to invalidate previously approved changes to gender markers on identification documents, part of a broader push by Republican-led legislatures to restrict the rights of transgender people.
The sweeping law, which took effect on Thursday, requires state residents to change their gender identification on driver’s licenses and birth certificates to the sex they were assigned at birth, and bans them from changing their gender on those documents in the future.
The law also prohibits transgender people from using multi-occupancy bathrooms in government buildings that do not correspond to their sex assigned at birth, and authorizes private citizens to sue people who violate the law.
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The plaintiffs, who filed the lawsuit under pseudonyms, said the law will require them to disclose their transgender status each time they present identification and expose them to harassment and violence when they use public bathrooms. They said they would seek an order temporarily blocking the law while the case proceeds.
Kansas officials on Thursday said identification documents had been invalidated for more than 1,000 state residents. Affected residents must pay for new driver’s licenses.
The office of Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, a Republican, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The defendants in the lawsuit are Kobach’s office and state agencies that issue identification documents and maintain government buildings.
At least eight other states, including Texas, Florida and Indiana, have prohibited such changes moving forward, and several of those laws are being challenged in court.
Transgender people in the United States have faced increasing restrictions at the state and national levels. Republican President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive actions targeting transgender rights since returning to office last year.
One Trump directive stated that the U.S. government will recognize only two sexes: male and female. Others sought to exclude transgender athletes from female sports and require applicants for U.S. passports to list the sex they were assigned at birth.
Kobach’s office in 2023 filed a lawsuit claiming that changing the gender markers on driver’s licenses, which had been permitted up to that point, was already unlawful under state law. A state court rejected those arguments last year.
State lawmakers then introduced the bill later enacted into law after the Kansas legislature overrode Democratic Governor Laura Kelly’s veto.
Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York, Editing by Alexia Garamfalvi and Ethan Smith
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