Kansas has become the latest state to step into the fight against transgender people as the state reveals plans to prevent transgender people from being able to change their birth certificates.
The new regulations, which could come into effect as soon as six weeks from now, would block members of the trans community from being able to alter their birth certificate to reflect the gender they live their lives as.
Not only will these regulations prevent transgender people from being able to live their lives effectively, as the gender listed on a birth certificate plays a massive role in helping transgender individuals prove their gender identity, but it could go so far as to lead to an increase in the suicide rates within the trans community.
Preventing trans people from changing their birth certificates will cause countless situations where trans people can be denied access to facilities, or certain rights simply because their birth certificate has them listed as the gender that they were assigned at birth, rather than their correct one.
Mary Pilcher-Cook, the Republican Kansas senator, said that 'a birth certificate is a record for future generations', going on to state that she feels that the document should represent 'the science behind a person's gender, not political issues'.
'Men and women are biologically different', she said, 'I don't think we should become detached from reality.'
This is the latest attempt from the religiously fanatic and bigoted right wing American government to make the lives of transgender people unnecessarily difficult, in what I can only imagine to be an attempt to wipe out the community completely.
Amy.
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