It's almost like you're completely ignorant of this and are "umm aktually"ing an actual trans person who pays attention to this stuff!

No shit the law was passed by a Republican legislature. And yes, the law was vetoed by the governor. But maybe you're just one of those Blue MAGA types that assumes Dems can do no wrong. But a list of trans people in the state already existed. And that list wasn't created as a result of this law. It was created by policies of the Vital Records office, which the governor controls. In fact, Kansas, with its Democratic governor, had a pre-made list of trans people ready to go, which not even Texas and Florida had!

https://transitics.substack.com/p/kansas-secretly-spent-years-making

Whether by malice or ignorance matters little. Under the watch of a Democratic governor, the state went further than any other Republican state in having a records system that could instantly create a list of trans Kansas residents.

Yes, Republicans are the primary antagonists of trans folks. But Democrats are truthfully not much better. In fact, there are Democratic attorneys general in more than a dozen states that are currently ignoring their own state laws and refusing to enforce anti-discrimination laws. Many hospitals and clinics have been complying in advance with Trump's illegal executive orders targeting trans healthcare, stopping services for children and adults. Doing so is a direct violation of anti-discrimination laws that LGBT activists spent decades fighting to pass. But the laws mean nothing if the attorneys general aren't willing to actually enforce them.

A lot of Democrats have decided that sticking up for trans people is simply politically inconvenient. They won't actively try to pass persecutory laws, but they won't lift a finger to fight back against them either. The Kansas governor didn't want the optics of explicitly signing a piece of bigoted legislation, but she also didn't lift a finger to protect trans people. The very agencies she's in charge of designed their records system so that it would be easy to find trans people, and it never occurred to the Democratic governor to try and do something about this.

So yes, this is bipartisan cruelty. Don't be Blue MAGA and assume your side is innocent.