REAL ID & Comprehensive Immigration Reform

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REAL ID & Comprehensive Immigration Reform
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Antonia D'orsay
March 1, 2010 4:30 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/03/real_id_comprehensive_immigration_reform.php


Personally, I have issues with the notion of a national ID card. I find it's duplicative -- we should just issue passports to everyone if we are going to do that, and be willing to surrender them at any time when asked for our papers.

I also consider being asked for my papers to be something of a fascist issue (you are property of the State kinda stuff) that I oppose on multiple grounds (religious, included).

REAL ID, as it's set up, right now, does not allow for the fact that not everyone can get an appropriate ID if they are trans. In effect, this means that REAL ID does not allow for trans people to change their markers (sex or gender), and creates a de facto barrier to recognition of their identities and social description. This can have broad consequences in a society where people decide what your genitals look like based on your name (and that's assuming it even allows for a change of name, since state courts do not have jurisdiction to my knowledge over REAL ID provisions).