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

[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

[nuwagaba2@mastodon.social]

@munin
How can they be stopped?

[ilka4you@mastodon.social]

@alice considering distances & (lack of)infrastructure of public transport in USamerica, this means most will not be able to legally show up for work or get food. So not only is this fascist controll & discrimination it takes away their ability to live. Wow. USA has become worse than any 3rd world rogue state. A place to avoid as a sane person, only good for child abuser, rapists & drug lords.

[nuwagaba2@mastodon.social]

@alice
Many people don't strive to end this until they're direct victims There are many black folks and immigrants that think it's non of their business. What can be done to stop them?

[jadedtwin@corteximplant.com]

@alice oh look, another state I'll never step foot into ever again. Another "I told ya so" for my family who keep saying I'm overreacting.

First it's POC and trans people. Guess who's next?

And I'm gonna keep saying this next part till my cassandra syndrome kills me:
Voting won't get us out of this. It's too late. Action must be done. Nobody voted Hitler out of office. Ballots didn't remove Mussolini from power. Y'all are gonna get your hands dirty before the end. You've been warned.

[ilka4you@mastodon.social]

@juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice USAmericans need to stay and clean up the mess they created for themselves. There isn't enough room in Europe to host half their population. USAmericans have not done enough to prevent this, now they need to get up their lazy asses & stop this desaster. You don't want to hear this I am sure, yet this is the reality.

[bthylafh@nerdculture.de]

@alice Republicans: if it's what the German government did with "undesirables" circa 1935, sounds great!

[hyl@mstdn.ca]

@alice omg 🤯 evil incarnate

[juergen_hubert@mementomori.social]

@Ilka4You @swaldman @alice

Look, while I can understand this sentiment, there are plenty of Americans who _aren't_ complete assholes and who are not in any way responsible for this mess.