A Boring Dystopia

But maybe you’re just one of those Blue MAGA types that assumes Dems can do no wrong.

Far from it. After Kamala, and the Senate cave-in last year, and all they have NOT done, I'll never vote non-screamingly progressive Dem again. The Dems are not even remotely sin-free here. And thank you for the additional information; you're right, I did not know that.

But it's not as black and white as you paint it. As tired as you must personally be of not having the supposedly good people do enough, I am tired of seeing people who are actually trying to do the right thing in their given circumstances constantly shat upon for not doing it ALL, while the people most guilty of all these egregious errors get a complete pass, or just a passing nod, as if it is up to the genuinely well-intentioned among us to corral all evil and somehow not up to the evildoers themselves to cut it the fuck out. I don't know what kind of shit this governor has gotten for her pro-trans actions and vetos, but it's definitely non-zero in a red state like Kansas, and I would not be surprised if she's gotten death threats over her pro-trans stance.

Driving an infinitely fine line between good and perfect helps no one. The governor was at least working a veto, or trying to. Did she even know what her appointed secretary was doing? And it wasn't just the Kansas Office of Vital Statistics (OVS) starting trans tracking in 2019; according to the blog you linked, the Kansas Division of Vehicles has been tracking trans people since 2007.

Representatives for the Division of Vehicles confirmed that, since legalizing driver’s license updates in 2007, the DOV has also tracked trans people. Like the OVS, the DOV created an internal marker that is specific to the process Kansas called “gender reclassification.” Similar to the vital records system, this trans-specific flag gives the DOV the ability to quickly create a list of trans people—an ability it recently utilized to send the revocation letters.

So the list that sent the letters came from the Dept of Vehicles itself, and was started a dozen years prior to Kelly attaining office.

If someone's openly on my "side" I'm not going to shit on them for what they might not even personally be aware of, especially when death threats for being pro-trans have become the norm for public figures.

As for me, my own personal "side" is not MAGA or anti-MAGA, though these days it works out anti 100% of the time. My own personal "side" is 100% pro-people: living the way they want to live, loving the way they want to love, inhabiting the bodies they want to inhabit, and to support anyone who I think is at least trying to stand up for that, however imperfect and insufficient their efforts are at this moment in time.

And no. The current hostility toward anyone of a different identity is NOT bipartisan. It is primarily GOP. And while not all Dems are on board, that's where the majority of your supporters are, because they sure as fuck aren't on the GOP side, and as you have read, it is still the Kansas GOP supermajority that is rolling this shit out for Kansas like a monster truck without brakes. For all the hairs you've so carefully split, you still haven't convinced me otherwise. But again, thank you for the additional information: on that I do stand corrected, and I do appreciate you taking the time and trouble to correct me on it.

EDITED to add blog quote and to remove unnecessarily inflammatory language