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TOPEKA, Kan. — <\/span>Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law<\/a> that invalidated their driver’s licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people’s gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is \u201cdehumanizing.\u201d<\/p>\n The men filed their case Thursday, the same day the law took effect, and argue that it violates rights to privacy, personal autonomy and due legal process guaranteed by the Kansas Constitution. The men also are challenging the law’s tough, new enforcement provisions for the state’s 3-year-old policy<\/a> of barring transgender people from using public restrooms or other single-sex facilities associated with their gender identities.<\/p>\n The men are asking Douglas County District Judge Catherine Theisen to block the law, which also invalidated roughly 1,800 transgender people’s birth certificates. The county is home to the main University of Kansas campus and is a liberal bastion in a red-leaning state. <\/p>\n \u201cThe Kansas Constitution prohibits the Kansas Legislature’s targeting of transgender individuals for this discriminatory and dehumanizing treatment,\u201d the lawsuit says. <\/p>\n The state Supreme Court declared in 2019<\/a> that the Kansas Bill of Rights confers and protects a right to bodily autonomy \u2014 a decision that protected abortion rights. <\/p>\n The new law was enacted last week when Republicans, who hold a supermajority in the Legislature, overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly. She appointed Theisen to the bench in 2022. <\/p>\n