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BumRushDaShow

(144,198 posts)
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 02:10 PM Sep 2024

Republican Policies Are Making It Harder For Trans People To Vote -- And Do Everyday Life

Source: Huff Post

Sep 22, 2024, 08:00 AM EDT


Brandyn Gallagher should be on the road right now. Instead, the 36-year-old, who has spent the last five years driving an 18-wheeler, is at home in northeast Arkansas looking for a new job.

Gallagher doesn’t want to give up trucking. They pivoted to the profession after working as a consultant for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and were happy it provided some financial stability to help pay off their student loans. But they are worried that a new state rule about gender markers on driver’s licenses might put them at risk when they’re on the road.

In March, Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an emergency order eliminating the “X” gender-neutral marker option, which had been in place for 14 years. Gallagher has an X on their license to denote their identity as a trans and intersex person. The order also forces trans people to provide an amended birth certificate with their correct gender marker, which they can obtain only after getting a court order and presenting medical documentation of surgery, before they can change the gender marker on their license.

A Pulaski County Circuit Court judge blocked the order in June, and Gallagher updated their license with an “X,” which matches their passport and Transportation Security Administration documents. But the Arkansas Supreme Court reinstated the order later that month, and within weeks Gallagher had received a letter from the state Department of Finance and Administration telling them that the office’s internal computer system would list them as “male” going forward.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-policies-making-it-harder-trans-people-to-vote_n_66edd5bbe4b07bdc7bac8b43

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Republican Policies Are Making It Harder For Trans People To Vote -- And Do Everyday Life (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Sep 2024 OP
What could be the reason kacekwl Sep 2024 #1
I loathe her face which screams 'I sneer at Truth' ArkansasDemocrat1 Sep 2024 #2
They want to hurt people IbogaProject Sep 2024 #4
For simpletons like Sarah BaronChocula Sep 2024 #3

kacekwl

(7,648 posts)
1. What could be the reason
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 02:17 PM
Sep 2024

A political party wants to make it hard to vote ? Think about that for a minute.

IbogaProject

(3,776 posts)
4. They want to hurt people
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 03:22 PM
Sep 2024

Another GOP scam is to make it impossible to access social benefits if a male can't prove they registered for selective service, registration has been mandatory for males since the 1980s when Reagan reinstated the requirement to be registered within some short time frame of their 18th birthday. The catch is you get one piece of paper that shows you did. There is no way to get that if you missed the deadline or loose that piece of paper. I'm sure if some one white who knows somebody they click through on whatever setting on which ever state database, but any one poor or minority would be blocked from simple benefits which while federally funded are mostly administered at the state level. This amounts to gender discrimination as no woman was ever required to registered but the GOP harasses them with the naming issues women face if they ever change their name.

BaronChocula

(2,522 posts)
3. For simpletons like Sarah
Sun Sep 22, 2024, 02:46 PM
Sep 2024

there's no evidence of your power unless you're infringing on someone else's freedom.

It also goes for the rest of the maga nuts and even some mainstream republicans

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