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

[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.

[samiamsam@mastodon.social]

@Fettlaus @alice

because they are pervs

[juergen_hubert@mementomori.social]

@swaldman @phl @alice

Yeah, pretty much. German political leaders always stressed the "Transatlantic Friendship/Alliance", and it would be awkward to admit that this now belongs on the dung heap of history.

And this doesn't even count the European political leaders who were extruded from the American business machine, such as our own Friedrich #Merz (a #Blackrock veteran).

[juergen_hubert@mementomori.social]

@swaldman @alice

Personally, I would recommend Americans who need to escape to Europe to move there via a student visa. Those are much easier to get, and you will have a much better status - you can get part-time jobs with them.

[introvertcatto@lgbtqia.space]

@calcius @alice @Fettlaus Good luck everyone.

[savvyhomestead@mastodon.social]

@alice

WTF, this is a crock of shit. So, Lindsey Graham needs to be next?
Those Kansas people are terminally stupid.

[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.