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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Feb 4

The SAVE act targets people who've changed their name *for any reason*. Ya know who's done that?

- Married women
- Trans & nonbinary folx
- Immigrants

You know which US citizens that leaves?

Mostly white men.

The SAVE act isn't trying to save anything other than patriarchy and fascism.

@amydiehl https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116008903793655443

Amy Diehl, Ph.D. (@[email protected])

SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters. https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/

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@amydiehl @alice A a white man who took his non-American wife's name, I'd also be disenfranchised as my name change was cosmetic. I'm also sure supporters of this crap bill think I did a beta move by doing so

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Patch You Up Feb 4

@sleepytako @amydiehl @alice My wife and I both kept our names when we married (in academics it's a pita to prove authorship of something after a name change). We get confused looks regularly when people realize we have different last names. Most people are still living in the old world.
It also confuses people that our son has her last name. We did that mostly because her last name is far more interesting/unique than mine.