Politics The NEW Transgender thread (4 Viewers)

[crandc]

Y’all, I’m scared. If you can, give a little money to the Ace Foundation of Witchita: https://acefoundationict.org/ or the Kansas ACLU: https://www.aclukansas.org/

Thanks. Will do. Won't be a lot because I finally had to replace 20 year old computer. But this is critical.

 

[crandc]

Could it get worse? Kansas law also establishes bathroom bounty hunter where trans spotters can search for people in "wrong" restroom, even in private stalls, and receive the $1000 fine trans people have to pay.
It makes me, a cis woman, feel really safe knowing bounty hunters are peering under the door of restroom stall in which I am relieving myself to ensure my genitalia match my gender presentation.

 

[julius]

I am in NO WAY defending this BS out of Kansas, but (from the states POV), why make the drivers license be a sticking point?' Like, it's not like the state thought this through very well.


I get that it's (just another) way to dehumanize/ "other" a minority group, but in a way what's stopping people who are trans from going "ok, my drivers license says I'm M but I identify as a F" and basically saying "fuck you" and playing their game and using it against them?

I.e., they're trying to take away your ability to vote, so you basically say "ok, I'm a "man", happy? I'm still voting against your bitch ass and your bitch ass policies."

I totally get that it's undermining peoples rights to be who they are, and I'm not saying I agree with this policy in any way shape or form, but it kinda plays into their hands (a distraction). Sure, they'll just say "SeE? wE aRe RiHgT! YoU Is ThE gHeY!" but then you can go "ok, I'm still able to vote. What now ass face".

I realize this is easy for me, as a straight white guy, to say/hypothesize because it doesn't impact me, but there are bigger (related) things, and IMHO this is going to lead to ICE starting to target trans men and women and then after that gays. And this will, IMHO, eventually backfire in their face.