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    Oh, I’m calling it now. This one is going to be used as an attack of trans people. Throw out the archaic and manual process of updating names in federal databases, and keep it simple by making the records immutable. Then hit them with a lovely

    “You MUST use your REAL NAME (MAIDEN NAME) on government forms. If the name does not match, you will be denied.”

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      There are already attempts to make it so your name has to match your birth certificate in order to vote.

      Targets both trans rights and women’s rights, simultaneously.

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        Oh, great. So it’s also another regressive push towards recreating the mysognist shithole decades where married women were treated as the property of their husbands. What’s next, giving married men in heterosexual relationships two votes?

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          That, and then probably back to not allowing women to own bank accounts.

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          At one point in the campaign JD Vance suggested that people with children should get more votes than childfree people. I’m certain he, and many others, would be down for that.

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        But wouldn’t that target Trump since his original name was Drumpf or something?

        I hope they clash hard over it

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        Nope, women are safe It’s the homosexuals & Transgenders they’re after

        The Conservatives made it abundantly clear

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      They already stopped providing passports to trans people, even if they’re willing to use their old name and gender. And I’m sure that policy will end up hurting women that changed their name after marriage as well, it anyone that changed their name for whatever reason.