) @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.
@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".
️ 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 can’t 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 you’re 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 it’s completely useless.
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.
@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.
@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.
USpol trans-
@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.
@alice Deep shame on Kansas.
@alice
Dorothy flees back to Oz
@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.
@ticho @Goodlucksil Divide & Conquer
Succubard's Library re: uspol, anti-trans legislation
@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 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 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.
@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.)