They Are Out To Get Us!

Why? What have we done to them, we are only 0.5 percent of the population! Why are they going banana’s over us?

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday 

Kansas City Star

By Matthew Kelly

February 25, 2026

Transgender Kansans are being informed on the eve of a new state law going into effect that their driver’s licenses will be considered invalid as of Thursday. “Please note that the Legislature did not include a grace period for updating credentials. That means that once the law is officially enacted, your current credentials will be invalid immediately, and you may be subject to additional penalties if you are operating a vehicle without a valid credential,” read letters mailed by the Kansas Department of Revenue’s vehicles division.

Why did this take effect the same day the law goes into effect? Why not provide a 60-day grace period? It can only be because they want to inflict pain on the community!

There are other states where you cannot change your gender markers, but no state has ever retroactively canceled IDs that already reflect a trans person’s gender identity.

The Democratic governor vetoed the bill, but…

SB 244, which Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Legislature voted last week to enact into law over Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto, will go into effect on Thursday upon the publication of the Kansas Register. The legislation provides no funding to help people who need to replace their licenses. Kansas driver’s licenses typically cost around $30. In addition to invalidating transgender residents’ state identification documents, the new law will require people in government-owned buildings to use restrooms and other multi-occupancy private spaces in accordance with their sex assigned at birth. “The persecution is the point,” said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the KDOR notice on Wednesday.

As the legislator said, this law is punitive! Here is the letter that the DOV sent out...

What does it say about the animosity that Republicans have for the trans community?

But it is not just Kansas that are passing draconian laws!

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans

In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The New York Times

By Amy Harmon

Feb. 18, 2026

After a year in which the Trump administration has pressed to limit the ways Americans can identify as transgender in public life, Republicans are pushing the issue at the state level with new zeal.

With legislative sessions underway in most states, hundreds of bills restricting transgender rights are under consideration as social conservatives seek to capitalize on Trump administration tailwinds and a shift in public opinion to codify an understanding of sex and gender as binary and fixed.

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Idaho’s House of Representatives this week advanced a bill that would allow people to sue private businesses that allow transgender people to use restrooms consistent with their gender identity.

In Utah, legislators are weighing removing transgender people from groups protected by a state law barring discrimination in housing and employment.

Oklahoma lawmakers are considering expanding the state’s ban on gender-transition medical treatment for minors to include adults, and a Florida House panel has advanced a bill prohibiting public sector employers from requiring workers to use the preferred pronouns of transgender co-workers.

The barrage of bills follows a six-year stretch in which 27 state legislatures controlled by Republicans focused restrictions mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors. This year’s proposals are more sweeping: They address trans adults as well as youths, seek to close loopholes in earlier laws and mandate harsher penalties for violations.

I keep asking "Why?" And I think I know the answer but I don't want hear the answer.

Supporters of transgender rights say they view this year’s state proposals as a concerted effort to chip away at protections of trans people at the state level to build support for even broader limits at a national level.

“There’s a clear pathway between the states and federal policies under this administration,” said the Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, executive director of Campaign for Southern Equality, an L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy organization based in North Carolina. “Our general analysis is that they will go as far as they think they can in enforcing what’s fundamentally a very narrow ideological position — that being transgender does not exist. That it is not a reality.”

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Over the last decade, many Democrats have argued that gender identity is central to who someone is, and that excluding transgender people from sports and public accommodations is a form of discrimination. Starting in 2015, Democrats sought to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include gender identity as a protected class.

And this was done last February and we are just finding out about it now...

Trump Administration Removes Trans Individuals From LGBTQI Travel Information Resources

The U.S. State Department has removed letters "TQ" from its official travel website, which now reads, "LGB."

Travel + Leisure 

By Stacey Leasca

February 4, 2025

Just days after President Donald Trump took office for the second time, he signed an executive order making it U.S. government policy to only recognize male and female sex. Quickly thereafter, the U.S. State Department suspended the processing of passports for applicants who selected “X” as their preferred gender. Now, the State Department has also removed the letters "TQ" from its official travel website, which now reads, "LGB." 

"LGB travelers can face special challenges abroad. Laws and attitudes in some countries may affect safety and ease of travel," the website reads, closely mirroring what it did just a few weeks ago, only this time, without the recognition of transgender and queer travelers. "Many countries do not recognize same-sex marriage. Many countries also only recognize the male and female sex markers in passports and do not have IT systems at ports of entry that can accept other sex markers. About 70 countries still consider consensual same-sex relations a crime. In some of these countries, individuals who engage in same-sex sexual relations may face severe punishment." 

What remains unclear — and unsettling — to transgender travelers is if the U.S. will join the "many countries" the State Department says only recognize other sex markers. 

Why all the vitriol from Republicans against us? Is it only to rally their base for votes, even if they are causing irreversible harm to our community?