#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state.
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#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).
The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.
Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
(www.erininthemorning.com)
Kansas Advancing Anti-Trans Bill Allowing Bounty Hunters To Patrol Private Business Bathrooms
The bill, which is racing through the Kansas legislature, stands a significant chance of passing the Senate.
(www.erininthemorning.com)
#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx
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@juergen_hubert @Ilka4You @swaldman @alice What should we do?
@theorangetheme @Ilka4You @swaldman @alice
I dunno. I'm not going to play armchair general to people who are directly in the firing line.
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I think you _vastly_ overestimate the attraction of Europe for Americans. Most people will not ever move away from their home country because that's where their support networks are, even as the situation becomes worse and worse.
And even now, I have seen immigrants to the USA that they prefer living in progressive cities there than in comparably close-minded Europe. We are not the shining beacons of enlightenment we imagine ourselves to be.
@juergen_hubert indeed, and thank you.
I have a queer kid. I'm also queer. We moved to the UK a while back during Covid. My kid attended a UK school, and I worked for a UK company. Our impression over the two years we were there is that the UK (at least the parts we lived/worked/etc) is significantly more authoritarian than Seattle (where we're from). We ended up moving back, despite the shitty rural conservatives in the US.
For all its problems, the US is a *mostly* good place. It's a *tiny*, *ultra-rich* minority of straight white men, and their stupid followers that have stolen this country and seem intent on driving it into the ground before pissing on the ashes.
And there's a *tiny*, but growing, *not-ultra-rich*, number of us vulnerable minority groups that *are* fighting *hard* to restore some modicum of sanity and compassion. But there's also a huge swath of cishet white folks in between the two groups that don't care as long as the war doesn't affect them too much.
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@alice I regularly think about the people and places around Kansas City I miss. The current politics there leave me with the feeling I'll never see them again in person.
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@juergen_hubert they could have done so much. 1 very effective example: they could have voted, instead of not voting, they didn't because many said "dems or reps are all the same" and added to the problem. @swaldman @alice
@Ilka4You @juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice you are implying a level playing field, which is non-existent, and blaming the historically preferred internal victims of the USA. With the level of education, the quality of information, and the free time that they are given, I would be surprised of a different electoral behavior for most of the USA electorate.
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@danni_storm @peterbrown @weirdone a M or F gender marker on an ID is already pretty useless when you have a photo on it.
And before anyone says "but some people don't look like their photos"—I don't look like an "M", an "F", or an "X" (which is what mine lists) either.
@alice @peterbrown @weirdone True. It's not useful and honestly photos aren't great either. I was told by a TSA agent that I and my partner look like twins (we don't) and she obviously was considering causing a stink. Thankfully she let us through.
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@juergen_hubert @swaldman @alice I do know. I have lived in USA, have family & friends in USA I very much love. Yet, everyone who let this happen either by voting, or especially by NOT voting, or by ignoring, or by avoiding political talks with MAGA supporters is guilty. That would be everyone. Nothing will change if the "good ones" flee. It needs the good ones to stay and fight. Fact: we have no room in Europe to take them all in. Housingcrisis. Fleeing JUST relocates the problem to Europe.
@Ilka4You if you felt you needed to flee your country to avoid genocide—or even just to have a shot at a better life—I'd welcome you with open arms. We can sort out the details later, but in that moment, your humanity and my compassion for your life mean more to me than borders or blame.
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@nuwagaba2 I think all the vulnerable groups (like LGBTQIA+, women, BIPoC, immigrants, disabled, and neurodivergent folx) already know what's coming...
It's the cishet white folks—especially the men—that need to step the fuck up and help change things.
@alice
That's right. But are they ready or just there waiting to first become victims of such actions? -
Please tell me exactly how, for example Black people "could have prevented what came upon them" with the Trump Administration. Or trans people.
Risking death while fighting an evil regime is honorable. Telling _other_ people to risk death while fighting an evil regime... is less so. I will judge Trump supporters, but I will _not_ judge others who have to make that kind of decision.
@juergen_hubert
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@lemonlolita
Nearly half the voting population is actually quite ok with this.@mloxton@med-mastodon.com @alice@lgbtqia.space
The polls haven't shown that to be true in months! -
#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).
The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.
Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
(www.erininthemorning.com)
Kansas Advancing Anti-Trans Bill Allowing Bounty Hunters To Patrol Private Business Bathrooms
The bill, which is racing through the Kansas legislature, stands a significant chance of passing the Senate.
(www.erininthemorning.com)
#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx
@alice
Swearing for you and so many others. This is clearly unfair. Would a trans licence from another state also now be illegal?? -
#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).
The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.
Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
(www.erininthemorning.com)
Kansas Advancing Anti-Trans Bill Allowing Bounty Hunters To Patrol Private Business Bathrooms
The bill, which is racing through the Kansas legislature, stands a significant chance of passing the Senate.
(www.erininthemorning.com)
#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx
Absolutely sickening. When can we sue the Epstein Class for being in public? Leave trans people alone.
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@juergen_hubert
Is there still hope of making a change?Always.
