Adam Kellogg was a self-described nerdy 16-year-old preparing to board a flight from Kansas City to Florida for a space and science camp trip to Cape Canaveral when security held him up for 30 minutes because his driver s license identified him as female.
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A bill proposed last week by a Kansas Republican lawmaker mirrors in part two Democratic measures that deal with eliminating unlawful racist language from homeowners association and other housing documents.
Critics say such measures could prevent transgender people from changing their driver's licenses and birth certificates so that they match their gender identities.
A bill in Kansas and similar legislation in at least seven other states have LGBTQ-rights advocates worrying about a sweeping Republican-led effort to erase the legal existence of transgender men and women