Yep. The 13th amendment didn't abolish slavery like we're taught in schools, but made it so you could be legally enslaved as a punishment for committing crimes. They then just happened to make shit like "walking around at night while black" or "being unemployed and black" crimes that they could imprison you for and make you a slave again.
spooky2092
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If you're not out yet, it's not necessarily an issue, but masking hurts them a lot mentally after a while. Those who are already out but haven't changed their documents have to go back to masking (assuming they're willing to) to move forward with getting updated documents. And gods forbid you've started the process but it's not completed, because they might straight up take your docs and tell you to fuck off.
I only see an issue with it if you are in-between getting the identification modified as the gears of beaucrarcy grind very slow
Or, you know, you live in a red state that fights tooth and nail to not update that information, all in the hopes that this day would eventually come.
Updating your vital records is a state level item, and the process will vary by state, and that's a requirement to get it changed on your Federal passport. Please don't forget that a large amount of states have been trying to pretend these people don't exist, and now the federal government is trying to help make that a reality. For an example of the difficulties as reported 3 years ago:
States requiring proof of surgery, court order or altered birth certificate to change gender marker on driver’s licenses
Georgia.
Guam (U.S. Territory).
Iowa.
Kentucky.
Louisiana.
Northern Mariana Islands (U.S. Territory).
South Carolina.
Tennessee.
Texas.
States requiring proof of surgery, court order or altered birth certificate to change gender marker on birth certificates
Alabama.
Arizona.
Arkansas.
Georgia.
Guam (U.S. Territory).
Iowa.
Kentucky.
Louisiana.
Missouri.
Nebraska.
New Hampshire.
North Carolina.
North Dakota.
Wisconsin.
States barring residents from amending their gender designation on official documents
Montana.
Oklahoma.
Tennessee.
West Virginia
I'll note again that this was 3 years ago, before the massive wave of anti-trans legislation in the last couple of years.
Lol "hiding"
I just have multiple ceiling hard points in rooms on all 3 floors of my house.
Keyword unfortunately being "absolute"
Thanks to Verizon/TMobile/AT&T being the swiss cheese fort Knox, I'd be surprised if Felon Skum didn't have it.
Companies have played fast and loose with our PII for so long that it's at a point where we need something else to act as that value so it's actually secret. But with this administration, that would end up being a wrist tattoo....
The irony of using one fascist billionaires platform to organize against another fascist billionaire and his platform, but also the government.
Yeah, like the creator of my app for one.
And guess who was one of the conspirator? Big daddy (Prescott) Bush.
Gods, in the span of 20 years we've gone from a president descended from an attempted fascist overthrow to watching the fascist overthrow happen through "legal" means.
You would think the right of all people would know that trying to ban terms will just result in new euphemisms and jargon being created.
The right thinks that if they clamp down hard enough that it will just go away, much like LGBTQ people were forced to mask and hide themselves like they had to back in the day, otherwise they ended up like Matthew Shepard. I don't know that they even consider the euphemism treadmill aspect of things, they just don't want these people to feel like they can be themselves and feel safe.
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Big "he's not hurting the people he's supposed to hurt" energy.
Also, really hard to feel any sympathy and respond with anything other than
Because we all fucking knew this is what he was going to do. Anyone who supported him and is surprised doesn't necessarily need to be laughed at, but I'm not exactly going to be very sympathetic to them getting the shit we knew was coming. They're just mad that it wasn't chocolate ice cream they opened up for...