🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)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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@alice @amydiehl @shansterable also (and while it shouldn’t matter this might sway some folks) Catholic nuns, monks and priests - up to and including the Pope who often take new names when they take their vows.

(My aunt has been a Catholic nun for over 60 years - we in the family know her under one name. But her public name under which she has written books, led centers for the environment at universities and been a longtime lobbyist to Congress is her name she took when she took her vows)

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