🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)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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Show threadSpace Hobo

@alice @amydiehl The "married women" thing may surprise some people who haven't worked out all the arithmetic on this yet. After all, aren't the right wing always obsessed with traditions such as women taking on their husband's family name?

The whole point is that they'd streamline the edits to the birth certificate along with marriage certificates, and then make the reverse change extremely difficult so as to interfere with divorce proceedings.

Feb 4 at 11:16amWeb
Show threadSwift (will be at EMF)Feb 4
@alice @amydiehl @spacehobo the idea that getting married would edit your birth certificate is so fucking weird