#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state.

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@phl @alice I've always assumed it's because it would be diplomatically awkward to do otherwise.

[amorpheus@kind.social]

@ticho @Goodlucksil Divide & Conquer

[phl@mastodon.social]

@swaldman @alice Last time I said this in a chat I got a similar answer — it makes sense, and yet it doesn't. Especially in the shadow of all the anti-EU/Europe rants we've heard and the active threat against Greenland.

[alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space]

@alice

Isn't Driving While Black already targeted!? Either way, yes, those in power are doing everything they can to criminalise us, and will not stop until only rich white able bodied right type of Christian dudes can drive.

@munin

[musiquenow@todon.eu]

@alice

#ALERT

Severe attack on #transrights️‍⚧️ in #Kansas

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@0x4d6165 @alice but we grant asylum claims for LGBTQ+ folk from other parts of the world on the basis that they would face persecution if they returned.
(Admittedly I don't think any US state is executing people for queerness)

[amalia22@mastodon.social]

@alice WTF?

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@alice Folks criticising calling them nazis after this one missed their history lessons!

[gerdek@social.vivaldi.net]

@alice Republican I presume? Really, the most disgusting people in the world. Poor USA or for the republicans NSA (Nazi.....). Dear Lord, sent them with a one way ticket to hell.

[sergioedup@corteximplant.com]

@FediThing @alice every time they acuse some group of something it is a self report on their own intentions it seems.

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@alice Dorothy, we're in Kansas and we need to get out now! Unclick those red shoes...
I worked on a contract in KC in the 80s. It was like stepping back into the 1950s or something, blatant racism everywhere. It was shocking. So no surprise that they are now trying to move to old testament times. Despicable. Boycott Trumpistan.

[tlisab@zirk.us]

@wvs
True. But your EU license has a name in it. Now, with German Mr Dobrindt and Mr Linnemann, both fascists in disguise, and their demands of "special registers" for trans people and deadname forwarding to police and other "security institutions" we trans people will face the same, as soon as the Nazi party AFD comes to power in 2029. Every nazi cop will see your name/gender-ID change, forever.
After "special registers" we'll see "special housing" aka camps. Again.

@alice

[oldguy52@techhub.social]

@alice

This is sick beyond words. Will they next require wearing yellow stars?

[lilithmonkey@todon.nl]

@alice it's all so absolutely putrid and vile. I very much feel grief for my trans family in KS. I'm also living in a red state that has taken up residency in the white house and it feels like there's a competition btwn the red states to see who can lick the boots of the regime the best. At some tipping point, the entire queer community will have to stand in solidarity and fight beyond the keyboard. We will continue to suffer, and we will have losses but our community must show up for all local elections and engage in active resistance. Yes, we are terrified...daily. And this oppressive violence is also part of our history...attacked and betrayed by our government and fellow citizens relentlessly. But duty is calling. And every MAGA red queer is an enemy of the United Queer States of America. They betrayed their own by voting and supporting what's happening. It's madness running amok. And we must actively fight for our rights to exist equally. We are the calvary (military not xian). Organize and fight back.

[retrimental@mastodon.social]

@alice

Oh, a trans tax.

Years ago I'd laugh at this as a somewhat conservative guy but I try to be better.

If I see a lifestyle choice I don't agree with, I always ask myself if I'm willing to disown my future kid for the same choice. If I'm not willing to disown and cut ties, then I think it's fair that the choice be left alone.

Imagine implementing a Christian tax, or straight tax, or <insert totally normal thing> tax.

You get the point.

[crcollins@writing.exchange]

@alice

These people are pure evil. There's no good excuse for this.

[icooiey@mastodon.green]

@alice appalling

[weirdone@wehavecookies.social]

@peterbrown

True enough.

I can imagine that some people's licenses may be coming up for renewal, and they want to wait for that to happen before getting a new license. If it's more than a year before renewal, I suppose they could get the license changed and renewed at the same time, paying a pro-rated amount to cover whatever time is left on the current license, plus the cost for the new one. ‍️

Just an idea.

@alice

[decapitae@mastodon.social]

@alice Disgraceful KS. Truly disgraceful, .

[jawarajabbi@mastodon.online]

@alice

As a journalist once titled a book: "What's the matter with Kansas?"

Our red states brethren are sick puppies.