Common sense and biology say that updating a gender marker on a license is as necessary as updating the picture as one ages.
But a conservative judge in Kansas who sided with the anti-trans Attorney General doesn't like reality. Her tissue-thin defense of stopping trans people from updating their documents was that doing so presents a "safety concern" because dang it the police need outdated misleading information that confuses things. #trans #journlism #kansas
A fine essay in Granta by Amitava Kumar that weaves together the political hatred inherent in Hindu nationalism and the heat crisis accompanying climate change to render a troubling picture of India today.
"The Weinstein Trial Begins" -- #OnTheMedia #podcast on power, gossip, control, Hollywood, women's sexuality, #MeToo, #journlism, and shifting dynamics amongst all and sundry.
Highly recommended (though of course this is one of my favourite podcasts).
Anne Helen Peterson with Brooke Gladstone
https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/otm/otm010820_cms985543_pod.mp3