@alice

Last night, a good friend from Kansas sent me a text and a picture of that awful letter she received. We talked about overcoming this and she declined assistance for a lawyer, so I made a large donation to the local ALCU there for now. They are the ones taking the lead protecting all our rights💪😺

Litigation is expensive, donate like all our lives depend on it.

@alice There are many people outside Kansas who want to help our trans friends and neighbors--how and where can we direct energy/funds/aid?

@alice So I live here in blue dot Lawrence and now when my grand daughter of six happens into the Womens RR with some hunky bearded person, she can feel good because there’s an ID that shows the F established 40 years, three surgeries, and 8000 doses of hormones ago?

Sure, thanks Charles Koch!

But if she see my sleek friend Natalie, in 4” heels, crop top, and a short skirt, she can call the cops for a reward because the license tucked in her bra has an M?

@alice Trans Continental Pipeline helps trans folks in unsafe states relocate to Colorado: https://tcpipeline.org/

Seems like a good place to donate money to right now.

@alice from afar is there any way to contribute/support?

@alice
Swearing for you and so many others. This is clearly unfair. Would a trans licence from another state also now be illegal??

@alice @tankgrrl is the trick to defeating this shit forcing everyone to prove their sex-at-birth in order to use the restroom?

@alice but the DOW is up 5 gajillion points so it's cooooool 😎 /s

@alice I felt like I was making a sober assessment of the dangers this time around and I *still* manage to be surprised by how quickly and horribly things are progressing.

@alice Boy, that escalated quickly.

@alice This is insane. First of all the 6 months thing. _At worst_ such a thing should count as driving without a license on your person, as the person impacted definitely has a valid driving permission - they just "lack" the "proper" license card on their person. Like, nothing there invalidates the driving test they've taken, it's just about the card.

But that they bring on the same punishment as for someone who never had passed a driving test, that's outrageously insane.

And yes, I understand that by the letter of the law, those two are indeed the same - if you possess no valid license card, that's the same as never having had the driving test.

I should add that the pre-existing law is also already very much broken, as one can be punished by 90 days of jail for having _lost_ one's license card. Seriously?

You know what the punishment in Germany is for this kind of stuff:

- Not having your license on you: 10 euros
- Having an expired or otherwise administratively invalid driver's license card on you: 10 euros (it's literally the same offense as having forgotten to take it with you)
- Driving without the privilege to drive: up to 1 year

The worst part is that it's basically _guaranteed_ they'll use the maximum possible punishment against people they "don't like"...

@alice are they supposed to use the hallway????

@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.

@alice wait a minute, let me get this straight, the Pedophiles are at war with queer folx? It legal to sexually abuse children but illegal to drive a car based on a deviation from birth gender.

@ 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴  (🌈🦄) what is the offcial connection between being trans and being able to drive a car??

@alice appalling

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These people are pure evil. There's no good excuse for this.

@alice

Oh, a trans tax.

Years ago I'd laugh at this as a somewhat conservative guy but I try to be better.

If I see a lifestyle choice I don't agree with, I always ask myself if I'm willing to disown my future kid for the same choice. If I'm not willing to disown and cut ties, then I think it's fair that the choice be left alone.

Imagine implementing a Christian tax, or straight tax, or <insert totally normal thing> tax.

You get the point.

@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.

@alice

This is sick beyond words. Will they next require wearing yellow stars?

@alice Dorothy, we're in Kansas and we need to get out now! Unclick those red shoes...
I worked on a contract in KC in the 80s. It was like stepping back into the 1950s or something, blatant racism everywhere. It was shocking. So no surprise that they are now trying to move to old testament times. Despicable. Boycott Trumpistan.

@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 WTF?

@alice

#ALERT 🚨🚨🚨🚨

Severe attack on #transrights🏳️‍⚧️ in #Kansas

@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".

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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".

@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.

@alice Cis people need to fucking well read this and do something.

@alice

<del>"America's Heartland"</del>
<add>"America's Hateland"</add>

@alice This is wrong and ridiculous and I hate everything about it.

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Same shit, different country!

@alice
Just fuck these people.
(I know, nobody actualy wants to.)

@alice

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 Sadly, yes. All of the "WE DON'T WANT THIS" from the constituents falls on deaf ears for the corrupt legislature. I'm hoping things get less awful here after mid-terms, but there's a LOT of damage the jackasses have caused in the last several years that needs to be undone. In the meantime, I'd recommend anyone thinking of moving to Kansas to stay away. The land is beautiful and the people are friendly, but the laws here are fucked.

@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.

@alice disgraceful law!

@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 abolished, too, completely?

@alice Why is it that conservative forces are always so fixated on other people's genitals?

(Interestingly in more than one way)

@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 WHAT THE FUCK !!!
How can this happen ???

@alice

Really flagrantly disgusting.

@RVLara23 @clintruin @alice @munin See also: Marital Rape declared illegal in all 50 states in 1993

@clintruin @JizzelEtBass @alice @munin

Related, this is why divorce rates peaked in 1980.

It wasn't bc women wanted to honor their marriages and tradition. It's bc they didn't legally have the financial independence to leave.

@JizzelEtBass @alice @munin
Well yeah...one thing about MAGA, they looooooove nostalgia.
☠️ 🇺🇸 ☠️
"Although we may not think of credit cards as a gender equality issue today, it wasn’t until 1974 that women were allowed to apply for and own a credit card in their name. "
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/when-could-women-get-credit-cards/

@alice is that a sea sponge that has wiped all the neighbors' browned-up buttholes? Thanks, I'll use a scratchy leaf.

@alice
I meant 'tax' as a general term for punishment. But yeah I agree, that's messed up. I'm not sure how US law works but isn't something like that violating some kind of discrimination law?

Though I feel like the whole conversation for 'law' is kinda dead at this point.

@alice @munin Guessing they will recind the driver's licenses of married women where their last name doesn't match their birth certificate next.

@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.

@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?

@Thijs_Goverde @alice A fire our country voted to start 😞. This may be Kansas but they are only emboldened to do this because of Trump and Trump 2.0. The world wasnt great but the winds were in the right direction before this dipshit caused a wave of incel men to come out of the limp woodwork, grab for power, and fund this kind of garbage. SCOTUS would not be the conservative swamp it is now and this law would be struck down by any reasonable court system, even ithe Kansas bill became law in that alternate reality. I'm embarrassed to be from the US and all I can say is I voted against Trump in all three cycles (Clinton, Biden, Harris). Obviously, enough people were lost to reason and truth to vote this slime of a reality into existence (TWICE!!!).

My heart goes out to the trans folx in KS and other places with repressive, hateful legislatives.