Zwei Transgender-Männer verklagen die Regierung von Kansas wegen eines Gesetzes, das den Führerschein ungültig macht

I mean, what even the fuck is the point of this law, other than layering additional cruelty on people who are already heavily marginalized and prone to intersectional discrimination?

The quiet part is, of course, that without a drivers license or state ID, you can’t drive, rent a place to live, get a job, vote, get access to public services or enroll in higher education, among other things, off the top of my head, so this will get them to move elsewhere.

This strongly echos the Nazi laws enacted between 1933-1936 that resulted in the stratification of credentials for vulnerable populations, by which non-heteronormative and non-cisgendered people were definitely targeted.

What a bunch of dicks.

Honestly, this is one of those where even if you hate trans people you gotta admit there’s a big issue. When Arkansas did something similar, it was more clamping down on the ability to make future changes. Even people who got reverted under the tighter restrictions it happened at renewal. We talk „basic biology“ well this is basic civics, even Sumerians got the idea laws don’t pertain to violations from before they’re written.

Theoretically, under this law as written, a woman who is not in any way trans but falsely on the AG’s secret list and had an outdated address or a slow mailman could earnestly not know and run afoul of this law that was skipped past committees, railroaded through over a governor’s veto, and rolled out with *explicitly* no grace period could have this happen over a simple routine traffic stop. She could be thrown in jail over the new penalty, now I’m sure there’s still enough sense that wouldn’t last long but don’t you fuckin‘ lie and tell me it’s impossible she ends up in a men’s holding cell for a while. Long enough to be assaulted. And you know what? The *attacker* and every other inmate in there would have, under this law, cause to sue when the issue is sorted out because the slapdash execution made the state violate a single-sex facility.

Since this is all about whackjob scenarios let’s hear from one of y’all. After 12 years libruls gave ya one trans woman winning a collegiate title one year. Kansas just passed a law that could allow a prison rapist to successfully sue for money on top of his nonconsensual conjugal. What America you want your precious lil vanilla snowball blondie white daughter to grow up in? Cause „basic math“ says their list of ~1,800 compared to basic statistics would suggest a lot of false positives. That’s a good napkin math estimate for trans Kansans total, but after you drop nonbinary ones less likely to change docs, the young ones who haven’t yet, and the old/out-of-state transplant ones you ain’t catching that leaves a lot of room for error.

If any law ever met the definition of arbitrary and capricious, this is the one.

Gonna show up to court without ID? 

Praying they win and get fat stacks

Does the state of Kansas acknowledge that they fraudulently issued licenses in the first place then, and if that is the case shouldn’t all licenses be invalidated for everyone in Kansas since the state doesn’t know what the fuck they are doing?

Kansas is so evil

The real fear factor for them is that they might find a trans person attractive and feel duped. That’s it. This all comes down to that one thing – being afraid that the lady they stared at and maybe made some sexual comment towards, was actually a boy once.

Hey! That’s my local DL center like 6 blocks away.

In a kind of a junky strip mall, so … do the rest of them look worse than this?

Kansas government just handing out free taxpayer money. If you live in this state you should really be angry about this law.