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

[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.

[grammasaurus@mastodon.social]

@JSteven @alice no fair making me spew coffee at this hour!!

[starfrost@wetdry.world]

@alice This is the end of society.

[accordingtowouter@mastodon.world]

@alice This turns my stomach! And it fills me with horror and anger. These are simply Nazi practices. Gestapo MAGA!

[bagofnails@mastodon.social]

@alice

This reminds me of Germany's round up of the Jews.

[nflux@gts.exile.social]

@alice this is so fucked up

[kimlockhartga@beige.party]

@alice JFC.

[danni_storm@hachyderm.io]

@Thijs_Goverde @alice A fire our country voted to start . This may be Kansas but they are only emboldened to do this because of Trump and Trump 2.0. The world wasnt great but the winds were in the right direction before this dipshit caused a wave of incel men to come out of the limp woodwork, grab for power, and fund this kind of garbage. SCOTUS would not be the conservative swamp it is now and this law would be struck down by any reasonable court system, even ithe Kansas bill became law in that alternate reality. I'm embarrassed to be from the US and all I can say is I voted against Trump in all three cycles (Clinton, Biden, Harris). Obviously, enough people were lost to reason and truth to vote this slime of a reality into existence (TWICE!!!).

My heart goes out to the trans folx in KS and other places with repressive, hateful legislatives.

[atleagle@mastodon.online]

@alice I will gladly pay a $1000 f8ne for someone if I can get the address of the plaintiff to hand deliver the check.

[fandasin@social.linux.pizza]

@swaldman

Admittedly I don't think any US state is executing people for queerness
*Yet...

(and I'm not writing it as a sarcasm anymore🤬)

@0x4d6165 @alice

[jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu]

@🅻🅸🅲🅴  () what is the offcial connection between being trans and being able to drive a car??

[danni_storm@hachyderm.io]

@peterbrown @weirdone @alice This isn't about utility. If it were they'd be combatting their piss poor public health, education system, homelessness, poverty, etc etc. This is about targetting a group of people and saying you have the solution to 'make them go away'. I agree though, it kind of makes the ID useless.

[missqarnstein@eldritch.cafe]

@B_Bird @alice fascism promises things it cannot do; so it has to deliver on "the distractions"

There were a lot of German Jews who wouldn't believe the fascists could do what they did. Don't be there when it's too late to leave.