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

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@Savvyhomestead No, the American system protects people of means who are well connected to the in-group. Miss Nancy is going to be okay, despite selling his soul a decade ago. He'll die in disgrace and be remembered as a gutless traitor, but he won't suffer for his moral crimes before he dies.

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@jabgoe2089 In this case, it's about the general human obsession with social gender, which the Western world has equated to biological sex for several centuries now. As gender is neurological, it cannot be tested at birth, so your Sex Assigned At Birth is based entirely on (limited) biological evidence. Many people, such as the weirdo Xtians who run Kansas, believe that sex and gender are the same thing, so what a doctor saw twixt your nethers at birth is Who and What You Are, no backsies.

[nilix@cafe.nilfm.cc]

@alice because the gender marker on my drivers license is the important part showing im a competent machine operator :<

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@jawarajabbi @alice
They still haven’t gotten all the corners of Brownback stench out. The governor vetoed this, but too many people there still vote for the Republican scum legislators who created this. The Koch(s) have big influence in Kansas.

Two of my company’s big yearly meetings are in Kansas. I’ve refused to go for over 10 years.

[len@nyan.network]

@swaldman @alice This would only list Kansas as unsafe. You'd have to run out of all "safe" states before they'd start accepting asylum claims from trans USians with a chance of success. Atm even Palestine or Syria aren't places where you can get guaranteed successful asylum claims (glances at Syrian refugees currently being sent back to unsafe situations).

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@gerdek

Democratic governor with far-right legislators in both houses. She vetoed the bill and they overrode it.

[darrylhebbes@mastodon.berlin]

@alice wait a minute, let me get this straight, the Pedophiles are at war with queer folx? It legal to sexually abuse children but illegal to drive a car based on a deviation from birth gender.

[jorsh@beige.party]

@alice

Kan-cis transphobes can go fuck themselves. This is such anti-human bullshit.

[pomegranate_stew@kind.social]

@weirdone @peterbrown @alice
Their licenses were invalidated today with no grace period. Any trans person with a KS license who drives today who has changed their gender on their license to their real gender would be driving illegally. They’re being forced to change it back to their ASAB and being given no time to do so, in order to inflict as much pain as possible. The Kansas legislature is filled with evil people.

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@peterbrown Right. But that's not its purpose. Its purpose is to shame and humiliate trans people and discourage them from being themselves anytime they're not in the privacy of their home. It's also meant to discourage voting by people they don't like.

[scaletheory@mastodon.social]

@alice

Violation of the anti-discrimination civil rights act, guess who goes to jail passing this BS, Kansas lawmakers, NOW!

[wesdym@mastodon.social]

@FediThing This is more about the DL as personal ID, which is ubiquitous in the US. We use our DLs as ID all the time -- liquor store, club, bank, etc. This is about shaming and humiliating a disfavoured group, and making just living as hard as possible. And, ultimately, discouraging trans people from voting, where ID is also required.

[k_leyton_cooper@mastodon.social]

@alice

[dedicto@zeroes.ca]

@alice @munin AND cishet white males who don't toe their ideological line. White privilege, although real, can confer a wholly illusory sense of absolute invulnerability.

[ruari@velocipederider.com]

@sergioedup @FediThing @alice

[lemonlolita@calckey.world]

@alice@lgbtqia.space
Why the US people haven't physically dragged tRump and his sycophants from the White House and hanged them yet is beyond me! He is literally killing people!

[veronica@mastodon.online]

@alice One more tick on the 1930s Nazi path check list I see. I wish there was a hell for them to burn in one day.

[alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com]

@Goodlucksil the architects of this sort of thinking don't actually care about trans people one way or the other. This is a classic wedge issue just like abortion has been.

The solution to this problem, like every other mind-bending problem in the United States, starts with campaign finance reform. The path from there is unfortunately long and fraught with difficulties.

@alice

[tina@mastodon.babb.no]

@alice So: you drive to turn in your license *before* it is invalid. But now you can't drive *home* ....

Guess they can be arrested for loitering, then. Land of brave and home of the whatsits?

[tina@mastodon.babb.no]

@munin @alice There's a certain poem that springs to mind