Kansas sends letters to transgendered people -- surrender your driver's license
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Source: Erin In The Morning blog
Today, transgender people across Kansas are reporting receiving letters from the Kansas Division of Vehicles stating that they must surrender their driver's licenses and that their current credentials will be considered invalid upon the law's publication in the Kansas Register on Thursday. Should any transgender person be caught driving without a valid license, they could face a class B misdemeanor carrying up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Kansas already requires county jails to house inmates according to sex assigned at birth. The letter, obtained by Erin in the Morning, marks one of the most significant erosions of transgender civil rights in the United States to date.
Read more: https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people
The full letter is at the link, Erin In the Morning Blog.
I'm' speechless. But, then, this is Kansas.
wcmagumba
(5,945 posts)I am an old cis white guy but I fully support my LGBTQ friends and neighbors against this prejudice and hatred from the Republicans...
Skittles
(170,618 posts)yes INDEED
FoxNewsSucks
(11,642 posts)
The Wizard
(13,661 posts)Where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.
JMCKUSICK
(5,723 posts)There's a whole lot of Montanans upset that you're swiping their motto.
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,724 posts)Gaugamela
(3,431 posts)Skittles
(170,618 posts)shame on ANYONE taking part in this, it's UNAMERICAN and disgusting beyond belief
NoMoreRepugs
(11,924 posts)mountain grammy
(28,893 posts)My god, Kansas. What the hell?
Figarosmom
(11,160 posts)Knows where they live. I wouldn't put it past them to have cops or state police watching their houses to arrest them as soon as they get on the road.
HeartsCanHope
(1,606 posts)That's money I willing to lay out! Sick to death of this bigotry and hate! Everyone has the right to be who they are.
Bayard
(29,200 posts)More hard won rights being taken away every day. Kansas sounds like they'd like to go back to stoning.
Initech
(108,317 posts)moniss
(8,908 posts)look in everybody's pants.
electric_blue68
(26,643 posts)Solly Mack
(96,753 posts)Talitha
(7,867 posts)If legitimate, this is horrifying.
johnp3907
(4,272 posts)hunter
(40,550 posts)There are only a few counties in Kansas where the population is increasing. Overall population growth in Kansas has been lower than the U.S.A. as a whole.
MuirHero
(128 posts)hunter
(40,550 posts)Rural Republican U.S.A. has no idea how badly they are getting screwed or who is screwing them.
Kansas has 105 counties. Only six of those counties have increasing populations.
Bengus81
(10,024 posts)can be easily overridden.
turbinetree
(27,333 posts)and federal level...............let a fucking traitor presiding in the white house a 34 count fraudster and sexual abuser, and they will let him and his gang roam around the state...........I forgot the Koch's run the state.............the same organization that helped Stalin............
wolfie001
(7,477 posts)That's exactly where we are.
Iggo
(49,825 posts)BidenRocks
(3,061 posts)unless you're a farmer or rancher?
Honest. I've never been there.
Trueblue Texan
(4,320 posts)...and then there are financial realities. Starting over elsewhere is expensive and typically unattainable for working class folks. It's easy to say why don't they leave, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, etc. But what hope would we have of affecting change if we all left? Who would fight for the helpless?
NBachers
(19,347 posts)
Historic NY
(39,897 posts)Kansas don't you some wheat to grow instead of engaging in stupid games with people.
SomewhereInTheMiddle
(642 posts)But that might be giving up, and they would not be able to vote in Kansas.
Back to the old ways - Throw the bums out!!!
riversedge
(80,305 posts)..........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......................
wolfie001
(7,477 posts)This really pleases hateful bigots. I recommend using her books and movies in a wood stove to keep the house warm with the dramatic rise in energy prices.
Lonestarblue
(13,381 posts)That way, violent Republicans know who to attack and murder with impunity. The Republican Party is too disgusting for words.
Vinca
(53,674 posts)Bengus81
(10,024 posts)Then..........
Trueblue Texan
(4,320 posts)What are they going to do to enforce this, inspect people's underwear? Just f*ing bonkers Nazo!