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She’d Never Changed Her Gender Marker. Kansas Invalidated Her License Anyway. (www.assignedmedia.org)

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A trans Kansas resident recently changed her name but not her gender marker on her license, fearing what Kansas may do if she did. The Kansas DMV still flagged her ID.

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[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

respectfully please let us do our own evaluations of our own safety

Read my last paragraph.

do not tell us we are "overreacting" or "too sensitive".

I didn't.

I've had people tell me that I'm not trusting my whiteness to keep me safe in America.

There are risks attached to staying in the US. There are also risks involved in leaving. Everybody has to evaluate those risks for their own situation. I wouldn't tell anyone to stay, and I wouldn't tell anyone to leave. I don't have to be queer to have a perspective on the political landscape and I frankly don't need your permission to share that perspective.

Whether or not you want to sound like you're belittling our concerns, you are.

I'm sorry you think so but, I'm really not. The concerns are legitimate and not over blown. I think the concerns are so important that it's critically important to have a realistic understanding of the current political situation that's driving them.