Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 day agoAs terrible as it is, then notice does say that you will be given a replacement license when you hand in the current one. So it’s not like they won’t be able to drive.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My girlfriend is trans. She doesn’t look ANYTHING like a man. In a few months she won’t even have a penis. But if she had to go through this and have her license say M on it, anyone reading it will be extremely confused.
glibg10b@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Because if she lived in Kansas, in a few months she won’t have any external male parts whatsoever, and if she had to put an M on her license it wouldn’t even make sense.
I was providing an example of just how utterly stupid this law is.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I’m sorry she’s having to deal with this BS. I have a feeling the next step is to arrest her in a pullover for having an invalid license when the cop doesn’t believe the M instead of the F and says it’s fake.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Definitely, all I’m saying is that she will still have a license and still will be able to drive.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Except now her license would have an M on it, even thought she looks completely like a woman. Driving isn’t the issue here. Anywhere that checks ID like bars, liquor stores, anywhere would now see her license, see an M, look at her, and think it’s either fake, or outing her publicly as trans.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
Oh, yeah that’s a problem. I didn’t even consider using driver licenses as an ID, I’m used to having a national ID and forgot that’s not a thing in the US.