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Eugene

(62,635 posts)
Sat Jan 6, 2024, 11:59 AM Jan 2024

Florida Republican lawmaker proposes law erasing transgender identities

Source: The Advocate

Florida Republican lawmaker proposes law erasing transgender identities

Beyond the discriminatory nature of the bill, LGBTQ+ advocates say the legislation threatens the ability to even document violence against the community.

BY JACOB OGLES
JANUARY 06 2024 10:52 AM EST

A Florida Republican lawmaker wants the state to disavow any recognition of transgender identity.

In one of the most sweeping anti-trans bills filed in the country, Florida state Rep. Dean Black’s “What Is A Woman?” Act would eliminate the term gender from government documents, including driver's licenses, and require instead for the sex assigned at birth to be listed under sex.

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Black, who also serves as chair of the Duval County Republican Party in Jacksonville, filed H.B. 1233 on Thursday. As originally drafted, the bill takes some specific aim at political parties that allow transgender people to serve as committeemen or committeewomen based on their gender identity.

But the provision of the bill likely to affect most trans people would forbid anyone from seeking an update to their driver's license or government ID that changes the gender originally listed and would require individuals to sign a legal affidavit that the gender on their original birth certificate.

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Read more: https://www.advocate.com/news/florida-transgender-erasure-law

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Florida Republican lawmaker proposes law erasing transgender identities (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2024 OP
Here's Dean with his... fiancee? CurtEastPoint Jan 2024 #1
Then he will rewrite the Bible to verify that Eve was a man? keithbvadu2 Jan 2024 #2
I always guestion why do these laws if they don't affect you personally ? kimbutgar Jan 2024 #3

keithbvadu2

(40,053 posts)
2. Then he will rewrite the Bible to verify that Eve was a man?
Sat Jan 6, 2024, 01:43 PM
Jan 2024

Then he will rewrite the Bible to verify that Eve was a man?

kimbutgar

(23,240 posts)
3. I always guestion why do these laws if they don't affect you personally ?
Sat Jan 6, 2024, 02:00 PM
Jan 2024

Unless he’s been attracted to someone with a transgender identity.

I always remember the quote from someone saying the biggest gay group are repukes who are ashamed they are attracted to their own sex. Like the Moms for liberty couple !

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