Kansas will no longer allow people to change the gender on their birth certificate after Republicans passed a law enshrining the biological definition of woman into law. 

The state’s health department was compelled to follow the law after Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sued to stop state agencies from allowing people who say they are transgender to be able to change the gender on public documents. 

After a legal back and forth, Kobach won in court, and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said on Friday that it could “no longer process gender identity amendments to birth certificates.” 

The health department said that birth certificates previously given out with changed gender would not need to be updated unless the individual needed to get a new one. 

“If KDHE previously changed your birth certificate to align with your gender identity, that birth certificate is still valid; however, if a certified copy of that record is requested, then the new copy must reflect the sex assigned at birth,” the department said. 

Kobach said that he was “pleased” with the decision and that it was necessary to comply with Kansas law. 

“The intent of [the Kansas legislature] was clear when lawmakers passed the Women’s Bill of Rights. KS birth certificates are state records that must reflect scientific fact as recorded by the doctor at the time of birth,” Kobach posted on X. 

Kobach was referring to a state law passed earlier this year — called the Women’s Bill of Rights — that defines men and women on the basis of their “biological reproductive system.” 

According to the law, a “female” is “an individual whose biological reproductive system is developed to produce ova” and a “mother” is” a parent of the female sex.” The law also stipulates that “woman” and “girl” refer to biological females. 

The law says that state entities that collect “vital statistics for the purpose of complying with anti-discrimination laws or for the purpose of gathering accurate public health, crime, economic or other data shall identify each person who is part of the collected data set as either male or female at birth.”

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Democrat Governor Laura Kelly vetoed the bill, saying it “stripp[ed] away rights” and would “hurt our ability to continue … landing new business deals.” The Republican-controlled legislature overrode her veto, with the law going into effect July 1.

Kelly said in  a statement on Friday that she disagreed with the policy but would allow the law to be enforced. 

“As I’ve said before, the state should not discriminate or encroach into Kansans’ personal lives,” Kelly said in a statement. “However, I am committed to following the law. Agencies will comply with the courts’ orders and work to implement S.B. 180 as appropriate.”

An armed man was arrested for posing as a U.S. Marshal while at an event in Los Angeles for Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to the police. 

Kennedy was set to speak at a “Hispanic Heritage” event at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles when a man arrived at the venue and identified himself as a member of Kennedy security detail, Kennedy said. Police later arrived and arrested the man. 

“The man, wearing two shoulder holsters with loaded pistols and spare ammunition magazines was carrying a U.S. Marshal badge on a lanyard and beltclip federal ID. He identified himself as a member of my security detail. Armed GDBA team members moved quickly to isolate and detain the man until LAPD arrived to make the arrest. I’m also grateful to LAPD for its rapid response,” Kennedy posted on X. 

I’m very grateful that alert and fast-acting protectors from Gavin de Becker and Associates (GDBA) spotted and detained an armed man who attempted to approach me at my Hispanic Heritage speech at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles tonight. The man, wearing two shoulder… pic.twitter.com/vvJc0Gtk4o

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) September 16, 2023

The Los Angeles Police said the man will likely face a gun charge, but they don’t think that he was threatening anyone, CBS News reported. 

Kennedy said that he hoped the incident would lead to him getting Secret Service protection. His father, Robert Kennedy, was shot and killed by a gunman on June 5, 1968, just miles away from where Kennedy Jr.’s campaign event took place. 

“I’m still entertaining a hope that President Biden will allow me Secret Service protection. I am the first presidential candidate in history to whom the White House has denied a request for protection,” he said. 

Kennedy previously called out Biden, suggesting that there was a political motivation behind the denial of the federal protection. 

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Kennedy, whose Democratic presidential primary polling average is nearly 12%, has focused his campaign on vaccine issues, foreign policy, and environmental issues. In a letter this week, he blasted the Democrat National Committee for going “off track” and reportedly not allowing a fair primary process. 

“Unfortunately, in recent years our party leaders have succumbed to the siren of control,” Kennedy wrote in a letter to DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison. “They have compromised the defining democratic principle of one person, one vote through repeated interference in the primary elections. They have hijacked the party machinery and, in recent years, directed the power of censorship onto their political opponents, raising political victory onto the altar in place of honest democracy.”