In addition to the driver’s license provisions, the law bans transgender people from using bathrooms matching their gender identity in public buildings and creates a bathroom bounty hunter system allowing citizens to sue transgender people they encounter in restrooms for at least $1,000 in damages, including potentially in private restrooms. The bill takes effect immediately upon publication in the Kansas Register rather than the standard July 1 effective date—giving transgender Kansans just days between the override and the invalidation of their identity documents.
The consequences for noncompliance could escalate quickly. Under Kansas law, driving without a valid license is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine—though first-time offenders are more likely to face a citation and fine. A conviction, however, triggers an automatic 90-day license suspension. If a person drives during that suspension, they face a charge of driving on a suspended license, which carries a mandatory minimum of five days in jail. Kansas already requires county jails to house inmates by sex assigned at birth.
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That’s a lot of cost and effort to hurt vulnerable minorities for no benefit. Kansas must breed a very special kind of stupid. It’s not just a flyover state, its now a fuckover state too.
for no benefit
The benefits are primarily political. Wealthy reactionary donors reward elected officials with more money. Church groups reward state legislators with votes. Fascist vigilantes reward the government with cheap snitching.
Kansas must breed a very special kind of stupid.
There’s a whole book on it.
What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
At the same time, these laws have created their own kind of blowback. As the conservatives pivot to appease an extremist minority, they’ve shed their populist mandate and needed to lean harder and harder on gerrymandering, misinformation, and terror campaigns to keep control.
Kansas is fucking weird because they do shit like this but also voted to make abortion a constitutional right in the state.
Most states are like that. I don’t think there’s any true red states if you eliminated the vote manipulation
Texas would be blue without their rampant voter suppression.
The governor vetoed the bill and then the legislature overrode it.
This is entirely due to gerrymandering of state legislative seats. A savvy liberal party would organize a constitutional amendment to protect civil rights and put that on the ballot in November.
They’d get the Ohio treatment then. Partisan gerrymandering is constitutionally illegal in ohio, and when the state supreme court struck down a partisan map the state congress kept presenting the same one until it was too late. No punishment.
Every day the US gets closer to becoming like Afghanistan, a place that they mock for having no freedom or tolerance, but have plenty of religious persecution.
Every day the US gets closer to becoming like Afghanistan
You mean the country we conquered and ruled with an iron fist for 23 years?
Brother, we’re already there. All we can hope for is a kind of grassroots insurrection to get occupying paramilitary out of our neighborhoods
Good luck!
The Republicans looked at Saudi Arabia and said, “Yes please.”
This society must burn.
Donald Sutherland: May I have a match, please….
I’m not trans, nor American, but my opinion is TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.
Really fucking weird to not have anything better to do than worry about where people go to the bathroom.
It bothers the hell out of me … Republicans always project, so are they doing something to people in bathrooms that we should worry about.See, that’s BS, it just bounced back on me.
This post is going to get deleted, because MBFC rated Erin in the Morning as “mixed factuality” years ago while misrepresenting the “failed” fact checks by removing context. The dumbfuck (almost certainly cis) person who rated her article about TN introducing a bill to force drag performers to get a permit with the state as untrue can fucking fight me IRL. A bill that doesn’t define what drag or a performance is is a risk to trans people, and anyone who thinks otherwise is an ignorant jackass. Doesn’t matter that mainstream media outlets cite her trans legislation risk map, she’s UnReLiAbLe.
But MBFC lets them turn their brains off when evaluating sources, so one of the most prominent independent trans reporters isn’t allowed here because the mods are intellectually lazy.
Should we report magas for being in the wrong bathroom? Gum up their little bounty system?
Absolutely
Toilets-shmoilets… Ok, there is at least some controversy here. But why driver licenses?!
Because they don’t believe we have any right to exist in society. The cruelty is the point. The goal is to hurt people.
Conform or die.
It’s the closest thing the US has to a national ID card, there’s a blanket assumption that every functioning adult has one (or the non-driving-license equivalent, administered by the same authorities).
