Paul Scott targets transgendered people in race for Secretary of State

[MaggieB]

Do people in Calafornia need ID to buy things?

Only when we use a credit card or debit card, often a clerk is instructed to ask for it to verify the ID. Since almost all merchants now accept debit cards, this showing the DL gets pretty common especially when we aren't regulars. I can't remember when I used cash last.

Maggie

[Dorothy]

You're right Tasha Elizabeth but apparently your government doesn't think so if they're making their laws stricter for pre-op people to get an F on an identity document.  All in all I think that trans people in the US are lucky in that regard.  At least they allow you to change your gender marker whilst you're still pre-op "pending" surgery & there are many laws that protect pre-op & non-op people.  In some foreign countries, you can't even change your name without GRS and in some others they won't allow you to change your gender marker even when you've had GRS, so you're left with a male identity (male name & a big fat M) on your documents even though that's not who you are anymore.  Welcome to reality folks!!  That's life for some trans people!

Trans people in the US should be thankful for what they've got even if it appears to be "nothing" or "little" because they really don't know what they've got.

[deviousxen]

Well, let's see, we have the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights and a few other things.

But still we constantly have some jerk or group of jerks trying to turn our democracy into a bigoted dictatorship

I tend to call them Communazis 

We don't have a real democracy anyway... Its all FUNDED.

[MMarieN]

We don't have a real democracy anyway... Its all FUNDED.

Actually, thanks to the recent SCOTUS ruling, we appear to be moving towards a corportocracy.

[deviousxen]

Actually, thanks to the recent SCOTUS ruling, we appear to be moving towards a corportocracy.

How long has it been since we WEREN'T?