#state law

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It’s an unwritten Massachusetts law to not touch another person’s Dunkin’ coffee. This one heading home on the commuter rail after a long day in the city.

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Two transgender men sue Kansas over ‘dehumanizing’ driver’s license law

Law demanding IDs must match ‘sex at birth’ invalidated the driver’s licenses of about 1,700 trans people in the state

Two transgender men sue Kansas over ‘dehumanizing’ driver’s license law

Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver’s licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people’s gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the measure is “dehumanizing”.

The men filed their case Thursday, the same day the law took effect, and argue that it violates rights to privacy, personal autonomy and due legal process guaranteed by the Kansas state constitution. The men also are challenging the law’s tough, new enforcement provisions for the state’s three-year-old policy of barring transgender people from using public restrooms or other single-sex facilities associated with their gender identities.

The men are asking Catherine Theisen, Douglas county’s district judge, to block the law, which also invalidated about 1,800 transgender people’s birth certificates. The county is home to the main University of Kansas campus and is a liberal bastion in a generally conservative state.

“The Kansas constitution prohibits the Kansas legislature’s targeting of transgender individuals for this discriminatory and dehumanizing treatment,” the lawsuit says.

The state supreme court declared in 2019 that the Kansas bill of rights confers and protects a right to bodily autonomy – a decision that protected abortion rights.

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Tennessee appeals judge's decision to block law making it a crime to aid minors get an abortion • Tennessee Lookout

Tennessee is appealing an order to permanently block a portion of state law that made it a crime to help minors get an out-of-state abortion

Tennessee is appealing an order by a federal judge that permanently blocked a portion of state law that made it a crime to help minors obtain an out-of-state abortion.

The so-called 2024 “abortion trafficking of a minor” law created a misdemeanor offense for an adult who “intentionally recruits, harbors, or transports a pregnant unemancipated minor” for an abortion or to obtain abortion-inducing drugs for a minor. The law does not apply to parents, guardians and those with their written permission.

The law was challenged in July 2024 by state Rep. Aftyn Behn, a Nashville Democrat and social worker, who has publicly advocated for abortion rights, and Rachel Welty, a Nashville attorney who describes herself as an “advocate for safe and healthy access to abortion care.”

In July, Senior United States Circuit Judge Julia Gibbons issued a decision permanently enjoining the recruitment portion of the law. Gibbons concluded it was a clear violation of First Amendment rights, noting in her decision that the law criminalizes only one side of speech about abortion.

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In Regards to people getting banned from Tumblr for no reason, other than being trans (and keep receipts)

Send this info to those people through a separate channel to make a dispute claim:

The link goes to the California Civil Rights Department complaint process page.

I hope this helps some of you out there.

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Energy costs are going up, here’s how we stop it

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With the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which has kept Native children from being purposefully removed from Native families into non-Native foster families since 1978, being reevaluated in the US Supreme Court, it is at risk of being greatly weakened and undoing decades of work to stop the systematic erasure of Native cultural identity.

(It may also re-designate the term "Indian" in the bill to mean a racial classification rather than political, reversing precedent with regard to tribal sovereignty. Native tribes must remain independent entities in the law rather than just a race to protect their rights to self-governance.)

The Lakota People's Law Project is asking US citizens to ask their state lawmakers to enact similar legislation at the state level which codifies the rights and protections ICWA gives to Native children should it be weakened in the Supreme Court. This is not protection for the ICWA itself, although they do have action you can take for that on their website as well. In the link is a pre-written email which you can personalize and easily send to your state lawmakers.

Thanks for your time. :)

Take Action to Protect Protect Native Children at the State Level!

As the Supreme Court deliberates on whether to eviscerate the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), it’s critical we tell our state leaders to

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it's actually insane that in alaska you can buy a gun at 16 but you can only purchase cigarettes when you're 21. kill yourself slowly with cancer? hell no. kill yourself immediately? hell yes.

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Apparently 2 days ago Republicans in Florida changed the laws and have now made it illegal to change your gender on your ID. So now I no longer have a chance to get the gender changed on my ID....

And even worse then that somehow

Every trans person in Florida who has already done so, such as my fiance Kaitlyn, is now in danger of going to jail for 5 years.

Cause having something other then your birth gender on your ID is now in law considered Fraud. Which is a criminal charge.

So if a trans person is pulled over by a cop, and if the cop doesn't believe they're actually the gender that it says on their ID's, they can and are required to arrest them.

And this isn't something in danger of being passed, this is something that has already been passed and is now official law in the state..

But yeah... I'm extremely upset about this.... I threw my remote at the TV after I saw the video 

And I'm very scared for Kaitlyn now... Cause if she's ever pulled over she could go to Jail for 5 years and that makes me terrified....

I really don't know how this flew under everyone's radar.... for anyone who reads this who is Trans in Florida, or knows someone who's Trans in Florida, or just because this is absolutely HORRIBLE, please reblog this post and spread the word to whoever you can....