Rubio Orders State Department to Stop Issuing Accurate Passports to Trans People
Trans, intersex, and nonbinary people applying for passports will no longer be able to select an “X” marker for gender.
Just went to grocery store. No eggs.
Shit's really going to hit the fan when limes for a margarita go to $5 each. Where I live in CA the migrant farm workers are not showing up to pick. No one I know will do that job.
Fuck the economy, who cares if people are poor, we just have to do the right thing here, we can't let people just be happy how they are, we have to ruin their lives and then everything will be nice again
Fuckers. I was about to renew. Fucking fuckers. Fucking fuckety fuck fuck fuckers.
I hate to play Xevil's advocate but you're likely safer without the identification itself. People are already being detained for having Non-Standard gender identifiers on their documentation.
Bottom line: That entirely depends on what you look like.
And for many, just as importantly, what you want need to look like.
Why didn't you preemptively renew? We knew this was coming.
Because reasons.
That's going to be really confusing when a fully passing trans person goes up to customs or TSA and it's clearly wrong. Although then again my ex had her old picture still and the looks she got were pretty funny (that was decades ago, though, when this wasn't being used as a scapegoat).
That's the point
This is going to be a problem for trans people exiting the country too. When I got to Britain a few days ago, my passport was scanned by a machine and matched with video of my face inside the booth with the machine. I have a feeling that the machines will have issues if the passport photo shows them presenting as a different gender.
The point is to cause confusion and potential harm. Yep yep yep
The Publix by my house is completely out of eggs what are these fucking morons doing. Every cabinet member needs to be tending to a hen farm.
I'm just picturing them all standing around trying to encourage the chickens to lay more eggs.
Senators confirmed Rubio by a vote of 99-0 on Monday evening.
With the Ohio seat of Vance vacant, that's unanimous with no abstentions. In case you thought Democrats, Angus King, or even BERNIE were going to stand in the way of the fascist machine 🤬
Damn what the fuck
I might actually leave
Gotta respect those senate norms. Could you imagine what chaos would be unleashed if the dems even pretended to care more about trans peoples' safety than making sure the confirmation votes are as unanimous as possible? Heaven forbid the opposition party oppose anything!
Is this not just full on discrimination? Trans people pay taxes too. They fund these dirt bags checks.
How will this actually be enforced though? Some states allow changes to birth certificates. I doubt they are going to start doing genital exams or asking people for doctors forms. Seems the only viable option would be to add it to the affirmation you do when getting a passport, "Do you swear you were born with a penis?" Which means someone who might lie could have punishment.
GOP doing what they do best, attacking the marginalized because they are scared and can't fathom that their box doesn't fit everyone.
The confusion is part of the strategy. It's much easier to attack a disorganized enemy, in this case, the American people.
Do you genuinely think the government doesn't have any trace of whether or not you have changed your gender marker?
Bureaucracy is kind of their whole thing.
Maybe it's just because I'm in a red state, but I know for a fact my state keeps track of that. I'm probably going to a camp very quickly.
Do you genuinely think the government doesn't have any trace of whether or not you have changed your gender marker?
Depends on how the state does it. California amends birth certificate in most cases by leaving the previous version of the document as an addendum to the current... except in cases of gender change. If any person or agency queries the document they see a single page that reflect the updated gender, no history.
(They also do this if your name has a slur in it that you want removed, which is nice)
I changed my marker during Biden. My state made it very easy. It’s a liberal bastion in the NE, and I have an X for NB.
But, yeah, I don’t feel exactly safe. If they made me change my marker, I wouldn’t have much concern psychologically (I’m more gender abolitionist), but I feel like they wouldn’t do much asking and would just rather “remove me” from society or whatever.
It’s not great, but I know some of my trans homies have it much worse. Going through years of HRT, therapy, etc., transitioning, and then finally getting to a marker and identity that aligns with you…only for this group to push you to change it back (or again, potentially worse outcomes).
It may be a time of setbacks and shitty outcomes, but Pandora’s box is largely open. While the trans population is small, a lot of people know a trans person now. Hell, Elon is bitterly related to one.
Even if they killed all LGBTQ people, you can’t eliminate this population like genocide: it’s an idea or identity.(“And ideas are bulletproof” jk) You can’t kill these feelings out of existence forever. Queer people will always exist.
Conservative values (sighs)
Screw this guy
why aren't they just doing nothing and embracing their very obvious trans acceptance and kink 💜
Still nada re: egg prices?
We need some stickers with trump on them saying "I did that" on the overpriced egg signs
The policy on egg prices is “go fuck yourself”.
Only up $0.65/dozen since his inauguration from the already record high price...
There's a trans/egg joke in here somewhere...
Would being shitty to trans people be okay if they did make egg prices cheaper?
Still $9 "low price" at Ralph's in the Los Angeles area...
Costco was about the same per dozen (business costco had 15 doz for ~$137) and they're supposed to be cheaper because of membership fees and buying in bulk. But, hey, at least those damned trans folk are miserable! That's all any of us ever really wanted, right?
Oh look, another brick wall on which to bang my head until I do enough brain damage to understand the reichright.
Does this actually sell? I personally buy it from Costco for $3.95 and I've lowered my eggs consumerism consumption(fuck Gboard for wanting to speak for me) from 5 - 7 eggs in the morning to only 3 now. And if this shit keeps going up, I'm stopping it completely.
Are they having a fire sale?
