{"id":223857,"date":"2026-03-17T15:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223857\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:48:15","slug":"anti-trans-drivers-license-law-an-exercise-in-inexplicable-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223857\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-trans driver\u2019s license law \u2018an exercise in inexplicable cruelty\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: As the proud mother of a wonderful trans daughter, guest contributor Darren Rosenblum\u2019s op-ed broke my heart (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2026-03-16\/kansas-trans-drivers-license-bathroom-law\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAnti-trans laws aren\u2019t protecting women or anyone, only doing harm,\u201d<\/a> March 16).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put, the law seeks to ban trans people from public life.\u201d To learn that, approximately, 1,700 Kansans can now no longer have driver\u2019s licenses that reflect their gender identity is, as stated, nothing more than an exercise in inexplicable cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and venture to say that most of the crimes being committed in Kansas aren\u2019t being done by that tiny community of trans people. But I guess that leaves nearly <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/usafacts.org\/answers\/how-many-people-live-in-the-us\/state\/kansas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">3 million Kansans<\/a> who will now feel safer and sleep better at night knowing that finally \u2026 what exactly would they know?<\/p>\n<p>Marley Sims, Valley Village<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: As the proud mother of a wonderful trans daughter, guest contributor Darren Rosenblum\u2019s op-ed broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[102089,102091,2072,10853,102092,11131,102088,102093,48,52,51,1838,102087,47,50,49,63,24080,102095,102090,102094],"class_list":["post-223857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-anti-trans-driver","tag-anti-trans-law","tag-editor","tag-exercise","tag-guest-contributor-darren-rosenblum","tag-heart","tag-inexplicable-cruelty","tag-kansans","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-license-law","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-op-ed","tag-proud-mother","tag-trans-people","tag-wonderful-trans-daughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}