) @alice@lgbtqia.space#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.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-advancing-anti-trans-bill
Really flagrantly disgusting.
@munin and you *know* once they're making solid progress wiping out trans folx and immigrants, they'll start into Black folx, women, and the rest of the queers.
I'm sure they'll start in immediately. Every time they have 'success' they push further the sleazy fucks.
@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.
This is sick beyond words. Will they next require wearing yellow stars?
@alice But they apologized for the inconvenience!
What a bunch of hypocrite cruel clowns.
@alice Republican I presume? Really, the most disgusting people in the world. Poor USA or for the republicans NSA (Nazi.....). Dear Lord, sent them with a one way ticket to hell.
@alice Folks criticising calling them nazis after this one missed their history lessons!
@alice How is this not a terror campaign? "We know who you are and where you live, today we're taking away your license to drive and we can take more tomorrow".
Hard to believe how far the once called land of the free has fallen.
Like a dark science fiction dystopia where lunatics and pedophiles prevail..
@alice ....and yet European countries still (so far as I understand it) refuse asylum claims on the basis that "The USA is a Safe Country".
οΈ badhairday @alice It would be interesting to see if trans people would sue Kansas for not letting them be people, or some such thing. It would be nice to have SCOTUS reverse the decision, and then fine the hell out of the Kansas government.
@weirdone @alice I canβt understand how this will work because in eg. a traffic stop the cop will see a completely different person to that in the ID. Surely the whole purpose of ID is to prove you are who you say you are and if your ID says youβre a man and you look like a woman (or vice versa), it no longer serves any practical purpose. If you are a trans man or a trans woman, then your ID should reflect that, otherwise itβs completely useless.
@alice Cis people need to fucking well read this and do something.
<del>"America's Heartland"</del>
<add>"America's Hateland"</add>
@alice This is wrong and ridiculous and I hate everything about it.
@alice
Just fuck these people.
(I know, nobody actually wants to.)
My European driving licence has an entry about which vehicles I'm allowed to drive. And if I would be required to wear glasses.
Nothing about my sex.
Even though some people (almost always men) express their feelings of inferiority by choosing an overpowered vehicle - nobody (at least somehow sane) drives it with their genitalia.
These law makers in Kansas are batshit crazy. My sympathy to all who are affected.
@wvs
True. But your EU license has a name in it. Now, with German Mr Dobrindt and Mr Linnemann, both fascists in disguise, and their demands of "special registers" for trans people and deadname forwarding to police and other "security institutions" we trans people will face the same, as soon as the Nazi party AFD comes to power in 2029. Every nazi cop will see your name/gender-ID change, forever.
After "special registers" we'll see "special housing" aka camps. Again.
@alice Deep shame on Kansas.
@alice
Dorothy flees back to Oz
@ki *clicks heels together* "fuck this place Toto, the flying monkeys were better."
@alice
I'm currently listening to an audio book of Gregory Maguire's Wicked and this line hits VERY differently :')
@alice such a stupid thing to fixate into. What have trans people done to them? What economical benefit is in for... Anyone?
There are a million things that would be much much more useful economically than alienating a part of the population from using your services.
If USA wants to be a capitalist oligarchy, USA should correctly corrupt itself.
@Goodlucksil @alice Every fascist regime needs an "out group", a group of people to rally against, to present as enemies to keep their support base occupied.
@alice disgraceful law!
It's weird seeing all the far right "15 minute city" conspiracy theories (which claim alternatives to cars restrict people's freedom) and now the far right is specifically using cars to restrict people's freedoms.
It's like yet another accusation being a confession. All the conspiratorial lies they told about public transport being an instrument of control, they are now actually doing themselves with cars.
@FediThing @alice every time they acuse some group of something it is a self report on their own intentions it seems.
@alice such a mean thing to do! It is against anything a decent human society would do. No ethics any longer. No shame?! What about human rights, have they been abolished, too, completely?
@alice Honestly somewhat surprised the bill doesn't mandate wearing a marker on an armband when out in public. I guess that's still just a little too on the nose for them.
@alice Why is it that conservative forces are always so fixated on other people's genitals?
(Interestingly in more than one way)
@Fettlaus@social.tchncs.de @alice@lgbtqia.space
the genitals are a pretext - it's about a marginalised group that they think can't defend itself or have others step in to defend them.
@Fettlaus because they don't actually have any of their own. I know, it's weird, but true. Republicans are all like Ken dolls down there. It's part of the deal they made with Satan for him to send them Reagan, and they're still salty about how that turned out.
@alice
That's barbaric.
From here, in Europe, I'm watching in horror.
(The forces ruining US society are spending crazy money to spread the madness to this side of the pond.
And my son is trans.)
@alice
Thx.
But you're the one needing a hug, methinks - you're a lot closer to the fire.