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In reply to the discussion: Kansas sends letters to transgendered people -- surrender your driver's license [View all]riversedge
(80,325 posts)29. ....." Kansas has seen its status deteriorate to a "Do Not Travel" warning in the EITM Trans Risk Map."
..........The Kansas letters arrive amid an accelerating nationwide campaign to strip transgender people of accurate identification documents. The Trump administration has barred transgender Americans from obtaining passports that reflect their gender identity, a policy the Supreme Court allowed to take effect in November. The Social Security Administration has similarly stopped permitting gender marker updates. At the state level, Florida, Texas, Indiana, and other states have moved to block gender marker changes on driver's licenses or birth certificates. But Kansas appears to be the first state to go further than simply blocking future changesit is actively invalidating previously issued documents and demanding their surrender.
As a result of this extreme anti-transgender law, the state of Kansas has seen its status deteriorate to a "Do Not Travel" warning in the EITM Trans Risk Map. Transgender people should exercise extreme caution when traveling through the state, and those already living there should take immediate steps to legally protect themselves in the face of laws that could strip their driving privileges, expose them to criminal penalties, and subject them to thousand-dollar bounties simply for using a restroom. For most transgender people who do not already live in Kansas, the risk is now too great to travel there at all......................
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Kansas sends letters to transgendered people -- surrender your driver's license [View all]
AverageOldGuy
Wednesday
OP
And then they'll wonder why their best and brightest, straight or not, are leaving.
hunter
Thursday
#20
SO these electors passed a law to discriminate, but they have senators and congressional people at the state
turbinetree
Thursday
#22
The 6 piles of shit on the SC think it's OK to be hateful bigots as long as you go to church
wolfie001
Thursday
#31
What everyone is missing is this very important little thing ............ Major Questions Doctrine
turbinetree
5 hrs ago
#50
"Stay in your homes. We know where you live. Authorities are stationed outside. A gas van is on the way to pick you up."
NBachers
Thursday
#26
And then when they do get stopped and don't exactly fit the visible description then what..
Historic NY
Thursday
#27
Can't people just go to ta neighboring state to get a new licence? Colorado might do. nt
SomewhereInTheMiddle
Thursday
#28
....." Kansas has seen its status deteriorate to a "Do Not Travel" warning in the EITM Trans Risk Map."
riversedge
Thursday
#29
And the next law will require every trans person to have red T stamped on their foreheads for easy ID.
Lonestarblue
Thursday
#32
Why on earth would a person's gender make a difference in their driving abilities? The point is hate and nothing more.
Vinca
Thursday
#33
It's how shit like this starts. First it was harassment and broken windows in NAZI Germany
Bengus81
Thursday
#35
If they invalidate your ID, trans people will immediately become ICE victims.
travelingthrulife
Thursday
#39