This combined with Texas keeping track of requests for gender change, are examples of the DMV used to target transgender people. Since it is a requirement to work with the DMV to legally drive, and directly impacts peoples mobility and ability to live and work, this is a direct threat on people’s lives.
We are moving directly towards a society using government resources to systemically target transgender people.
If this was instead a politician targeting everyone with a gun license, the death threats would come pouring in.
But transgender people don’t have the privilege to threaten, because the rightwing are looking for any reason to destroy.
The trans community is just the beginning, the first to be targeted
Guys we just need to come together, why is there so much division? You just need to see the common ground and not act so combative while we systematically take your rights away.
We should extend the “safe at home” program to trans people now. Hateful people can’t be trusted with their personal info.
I used to be a part of it and faced a lot of discrimination. My ex’es family has a stalker (I was living with them, so I had to join). My ID/ drivers license had a PO box instead of an address. Whenever I’d tell people I was in the program, they’d say it was bullshit, then THEY’D get yelled at, and then I’d get a little extra nice treatment. I wish trans people could get the same.
Republicans feel like stalkers to me. You just want to live your own life and identify as your own person, and you have these weirdoes judging your privates? Let people be safe and fuck off pretending to do the same.
Ah, this must be the freedom, individual rights and small government I hear about all the time
Sorry… they say gender identity is not immutable… as in… it is mutable…… as in it can change… but you can be arrested if it does change? Fucking… what?
Imagine Henry Ford saying, “You can have any color you want as long as you want black.” and then adding, “And if you paint the car red we will shoot you!”
Ferrari don’t like when you paint their cars so you’re not far from reality
If I bought it, fuck em. They (hypothetically) already have my money
Generally yes, they tell people not to repaint them and if they do there’s a sternly worded letter to change it back. If you do not they won’t sell you another Ferrari. You could find someone to sell you one, but anyone who third party sells a Ferrari is also blacklisted. (Since all sales technically involve you selling it back to Ferrari, then THEY sell it to the person)
You also agree to these terms (painting, not debadging, etc) when you bought the car. There have been some examples where Ferrari even sued over “use of vehicle for malicious intent”
You’re correct to point this out.
Identity =/= Gender =/= Sex
Sex is the physical sexual characteristics of your body. Such as breasts, penis or vagina. This can be altered by surgery or way more commonly, hormones which greatly alter the makeup of sex organs. It is also why people born with a mix of sexual characteristics are called intersex.
Gender is the social construct performance that we all do to interact with the world. Gender roles have changed a lot over time and culture, most easily seen by cooking being womens work and having a job being men’s. Gender can and does change a lotRedneck, goth, jock are all genders because it tells you something about how that person interacts with the world socially. There is no wrong way to be a human, you can have multiple genders and every gender is inherently valid.
Identity is who you see yourself as in the mirror. It’s sort of immposible to describe who that is, so many express it via gender, but not exclusively. Many people are happy in their gender role, but see themselves differently. This is something that can change over time, but not willingly be changed.
The state assumes everyones sex determines their gender and identity so documents use the three interchangeably and it drives me up the wall.
I know yous lot are backward thinking medieval god-botherers but fuck me, making people get a licence to be trans? 😂
This is about a standard driver’s license.
Arm yourselves, before they try to take that from you, too.
