The Trump administration is proposing sweeping changes to the rules governing the 2030 US Census, including a requirement that could make questions about biological sex mandatory for respondents, a change critics say could effectively force transgender people to disclose their trans status to the federal government.
Oh we’re close enough to the election that they gotta bully trans people for votes… will it work again?
If it just says ‘biological sex’ without defining it then I’m marking male, because anatomy and hormones are both a part of your biological sex 🤷♂️
Anatomy and hormones you produce, yes. Injecting yourself with massive amounts of synthetic testosterone or estrogen isn’t part of your biological sex. Just mark whatever the hell you want, it’s a stupid survey. If you need it to validate yourself you have a lot bigger problems.
Can’t single people out if everyone joins the party. I identify as trans now!
holy shit this is the kind of effective cis allyship we need
I’m right there with you.
The only thing that matters is who wins the 2028 election. This can all be reversed and census is not until 2030
There are still people who believe there is gonna be another election? Cute
Well an “election” for sure. And their supreme court will find a way to decide the midterms, somehow.
…Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
What would prevent someone just claiming their identified sex as their census answer? What’s the penalty?
They make a comparison with your birth certificate, then remove your right to vote because your documents are fake or whatever.
The federal government doesn’t administer elections, that’s explicitly laid out in the constitution as a state power
the government does not get free access to census responses, either. it’s protected data. the census bureau produces statistics and numbers, it is not a surveillance arm for the feds. it has to be that way, otherwise half the country or more would either lie or not respond at all.
Doesn’t the state use census data? The state could also be dicks
To determine voter eligibility? No, people move more than once a decade.
Well that’s a good way to get people not to do the census.
That’s the point. Undercount more liberal areas so they have less representation.
ah, fascists and their lists.
He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, Obergruppenführer Strauss is coming to town
To all the people who told us trump wouldn’t do bad thing x, y, and z. FUCK YOU.
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