the small stinker spends time with me on the couch
the small stinker has a resting angry face
Valentina Gonzalez
man, fuck the gop. fuck transphobia, fuck fascism, i'm so tired
Kansas has sent a letter to each of their trans residents saying they are suspending their drivers licenses, effective today (February 26th), with no grace period for updating credentials. It directs trans people to go to a DMV to surrender their old license and be issued a new one that shows their sex as the one assigned at birth. (Though they can’t drive themselves to the DMV because, y’know, their drivers licenses are suspended.)
Text of the full letter available here.
They are doing this the extra cruel way on purpose. If they knew which people to send this letter to, then they could have just as easily just automatically mailed them replacement licenses. But forcing them to make arrangements to travel to a DMV, present themselves in person (to be potentially humiliated/deadnamed by the DMV employees to their faces), and to be unable to drive themselves to their work/school in the interim, are all just ways of making this process even harder. And because there’s a National Driver Register database that lists individual drivers’ status and history information, it’s not necessarily even as simple as just moving to a different state and get a new license issued there, because it will presumably show their previous license as being suspended.
Someone has been comparing this to the day in 1938 when the German government invalidated all German passports held by Jewish people, forcing them to surrender their old passports and instead have passports stamped with a “J” for Jewish on them.
For trans people, carrying an ID that misgenders them opens them to intrusive questions, harassment, and even violence.
There’s a nonprofit in Colorado, the Trans Continental Pipeline, that helps queer people relocate from unaccepting/unsafe states to Colorado. Colorado shares a border with Kansas, and is the closest blue state. Apparently they are getting overwhelmed with requests. If you have spare money to donate, now seems like a good time. If you’re in Colorado and have time to volunteer, their volunteer form is here.
I really like Commercial Break AU created by @comicdez. And I thought a little bit about how it might end? In my idea, the thorn ring grows into Tenna, thereby killing him, but his empty shell still follows Spamton.
I also drew a little comic, Battat is trying to ragebait Tenna :)
(I apologize in advance for all the mistakes, English is not my native language, and I used a translator!)