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The cruelty will only stop when we organize together and make it stop
Every day the list of states I am willing to visit shrinks.
Kansas has a 30-day grace period for insuring the car you drive.
Just in time for midterms that will require voters show ID.
Can you do postal votes without id? There's so few trans people it'd make functionally no difference, but i guess many would vote and none would vote republican
Classic tyranny of the majority.
Crazy thing is Kansas has a Dem governor. She vetoed this and they overrode it. Really bound and determined to be transphobic fucks
So you could've had it revoked while you were driving with no notice
It's rough out here 
Kansas needs another John Brown 
come and get it.
I predict blowback. You can't back people into a corner like this. There's nowhere out for a trans woman. is she supposed to go do time in a men's prison? Surely one might as well shoot it out even over a minor infraction at that point.
While Adventurist terrorism is bad, no one should do it... I do wonder how long until life gets so unlivable for a minority like teams folks, that you start getting instances of Stochastic terrorism.
It's not like trans folks are concentrated enough right now for coherent resistance movements, re: Stonewall are feasible. Though things are getting bad enough for queer folks in red states, that a lot of them are fleeing to bluer States, so maybe that concentration is already happening.
Tl;dr - Gay Liberation Front 2, anyone?