Reminder that Sarah McBride is the first out transgender woman elected to congress. The Republicans are specifically targeting her and future transgender representatives by banning them their gendered restrooms of choice. As always, cruelty is the point.

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    They’ll end up demanding to see a birth certificate, which is not a historical document, can be updated, and often has errors.

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      and often stipulate the original birth certificate so if there was a mistake entering the sex, too fucking bad I guess?

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        They’re gonna need a report from a gender specialist and a clear set of credentials confirming their ability to definitely decide 100.0% make or 100.0% female.

        Let’s learn stuff.

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          If you want tips for how to make it uncomfortable, slow, and humiliating you can crib from Real Life Experience (RLE) the process that they used to make trans people go through to prove our genders

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          But how do we know that they haven’t changed since the docent was generated. Clearly the only solution are genital inspectors…

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          I always wanted to make a fake cert but never had a good reason.
          I’ll do it and I’ll deliberately do a poor job.

          Edit: shit, i mistakenly capitalized “board”