🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Feb 26

#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).

The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.

Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-advancing-anti-trans-bill

#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

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Show threadSimon WaldmanFeb 26
@alice ....and yet European countries still (so far as I understand it) refuse asylum claims on the basis that "The USA is a Safe Country".
Show threadJürgen HubertFeb 26

@swaldman @alice

Personally, I would recommend Americans who need to escape to Europe to move there via a student visa. Those are much easier to get, and you will have a much better status - you can get part-time jobs with them.

Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 27
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I feel the need to clarify: I oppose the suggestion for all USAmericans to flee via students visa. B/C this is a hypothetical & imo for many reasons a bad idea. This hypothetical idea following I oppose for many as well hypothetical reasons. 330 Mio ppl fleeing would flood capacity & systems & worsen the sit. for everyone and not change 1 thing. 500 sign limit doesn’t help a deep convo.
Show threadWoozle HypertwinFeb 27

@Ilka4You

Well, good news -- the number of people seeking to flee is only a tiny, tiny fraction of 330 million.

(P.S. many other fedi instances have larger character-limits; I agree that 500 is ridiculous for having substantial discussions.)

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Show threadIlka 🌐
@woozle 2/2 interesting imo: 2nd/3rd/4th Gen Jews, whos ancestors fled Nazi GER, are looking to claim their right to a GER passport. No one could ever have imagined that 16 months ago. It needed Felon 47 to become FOTUS to get he world into that crazy state. @juergen_hubert @Alice @gneilyo @Njord @Raccoon @joe_vinegar @miss_rodent @ChuckMcManis
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Show threadWoozle HypertwinFeb 27

@Ilka4You

I have to keep reminding myself that change, even when it's for the worst, is also an opportunity for progress -- because people who would have resisted new ideas before may now realize that there is no "keep things the way they are" or even "put things back the way they were".

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Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 27
@woozle yes, I share this view. I am a fan of change, but sometimes it hurts terribly before it gets better. I thought of the structural/society effects from covid that way as a chance for society to change for the better. But the positive impact was just for a blink of an eye. It then became even worse. (I am explicitly not talking about the impact on health, there is no positive side in that.)
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Show threadWoozle HypertwinFeb 27

@Ilka4You

We needed some new structures to be ready, to catch that opportunity. We did have some: video appointments are now a thing, and work-from-home is still much more common than it used to be.

...but a lot of opportunity was missed, also, because of the ways in which we were not ready.

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Show threadIlka 🌐Feb 27
@woozle ttue, thank you for this reminder. 🥰 @juergen_hubert @Alice @gneilyo @Njord @Raccoon @joe_vinegar @miss_rodent @ChuckMcManis