Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: “Trans discrimination is sex discrimination”
Source: NamelessResearcher
Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: “Trans discrimination is sex discrimination”
Source: NamelessResearcher
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Proud of Montana.
It’s nice to see that someone in the U.S. is setting the record straight.
Crazy people filing emergency petition to get SCOTUS to overturn it in 3, 2, 1…
GOP: “We’re sexist, too. Stop telling us our sexism and bigotry is wrong! We have a First Amendment right to not hear your criticism! Please, government, protect our bigotry!”
Trans people have every right everyone else has. Period.
I’m curious, what does it take to be considered trans in these cases? Is it the principle that people simply are what they say they are, or does it require some type of documentation of gender-affirming care or diagnosis?
This is absolutely huge for Lgbtq people. LETS FREAKING GO
As a trans American, I continue to believe the matter is easily solvable by removing all sex and gender markers from passports, driver’s licenses, official IDs, etc., where identifying you does not need to involve a genital check. In the hospital, providers need a inventory check, but this ID data is information that simply serves no purpose. Legal name, legal address, date of birth, does the photo look like you. That’s all you need. Can we just have an issue, one issue, related to the trans community where a freaking adult is in charge?!
That is correct.
I don’t even understand MAGAs end game with this.
If a transwoman has an ID that says “Male” on it, and someone questions them about it, they can just say, “It’s because I’m a transwoman, and I legally have to have ‘male’ on my ID.”
What is the other person gonna do in that situation? If they’re at an airport, are they gonna *not* let them fly because they’re trans? If they get pulled over by the cops, are they going to get a ticket for being trans? I just don’t understand what the “gotcha” here is for MAGA or how it helps them in any way.
Meanwhile in The Free State Of Florida….
(Yes, they actually put that on a sign as you enter the state.)
What about the sizable population of people who just say they don’t want to support the patriarchy so they’re not going to accept any gender identity or they’re going to change their gender identity? We know that something like 1% of the population identifies as trans but only something like one out of 20,000 suffers from gender dysphoria. So that other big group can mean a lot of different things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria
If gender was removed from the drivers license…doesn’t this become a non issue?
So is the court saying gender and sex are the same thing?
My ID says “sex”, not “gender”.
Can someone help me understand something? (Learning opportunity for me)
First…HELL YEAH!
Second…Gender v Sex. Isn’t sex the biological marker and gender the more fluid identifier? Or in this case is “sex discrimination” being used as an all-encompassing term to hold both types under the umbrella?
Watch conservative bigots get more upset over this than bombing a school full of children and teachers.
(1) The idea that your gender is in any way relevant to identity documents is absurd.
(2) Why do people obsess so much over the shape of other people’s junk.
My fundamental belief is the only person who needs to know anything about my ASAB is the person im sleeping with and my drs.
Thats it.
Finally, some good fucking news.
Hey Patriots, WE The People means Everyone. We’re tired of the constant culture war and erosion of human rights.
And we still have some fuckstick in the MT AG’s office who wants to behave as if intersex people simply don’t exist. This is an issue that should only present an actionable difference in treatment between individuals and their doctors/nurses, and nowhere else.
> The Montana Attorney General’s Office, on the other hand, expressed outrage in an anti-trans statement.
> “Requiring the state to issue false documents simply doesn’t change the reality that men cannot become women, and women cannot become men,” said Chase Scheuer, the office’s deputy communications director.
My uninformed opinion is that we don’t need gender/sex markers on IDs, I only see that information being relevant in a medical setting or social/romantic setting.
If only the Heritage Foundation goons on SCOTUS were less fringe.
A big issue here is that conservatives’ understanding of trans women is that they are straight male pedophiles who are fat, bald, and hairy, and they only cross dress to try to get into women’s bathrooms so they can rape little girls.
And they don’t even think about trans men.
There are tons of trans people who pass so well that you would never guess they are trans.
Forcing passing trans people to identify as the opposite sex is going to create problems.
Hell yeah my tax dollars are being used to bomb children across the globe. A peodiphile rapists is in charge of the the country and we are spending time on making sure the letter on your license is the preferred letter. This is 100% part of the reason we are here now
Wait till SCOTUS gets ahold of it, though.
Just wait until this makes its way to the Supreme Court. The wailing and gnashing of teeth will be biblical.
It’s 2026, I still can’t believe we haven’t moved past stuff like this.
I wonder about the unintended consequences of reinforcing the anti-scientific and pro-bigotry belief that gender is defermined by sex. Probably overall a positive ruling, but it seems like it’s going to cause more serious problems in the future.