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

[weirdone@wehavecookies.social]

@alice It would be interesting to see if trans people would sue Kansas for not letting them be people, or some such thing. It would be nice to have SCOTUS reverse the decision, and then fine the hell out of the Kansas government.

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@alice ....and yet European countries still (so far as I understand it) refuse asylum claims on the basis that "The USA is a Safe Country".

[swaldman@mendeddrum.org]

@Fruan @alice that would conflict with "We can always tell". Not that logical consistency is always a requirement with this lot, I'll admit.

[ki@chaos.social]

@alice
I'm currently listening to an audio book of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and this line hits VERY differently :')

[riverpunk@defcon.social]

@alice unilaterally stripping the driver's license from every single member of a minority group is very mask-off fascism bullshit. That's so goddamn evil.

To act like the US isn't facing a crisis of authoritarian fascism seems at this point just functionally impossible. That's 1933 playbook shit.

Very worrying.

[phl@mastodon.social]

@swaldman @alice I honestly don't get why we still list the US as "safe to travel" in the travel advisories either.

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@alice How is this not a terror campaign? "We know who you are and where you live, today we're taking away your license to drive and we can take more tomorrow".

[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?