On Kansas, Transphobia, and Domestic Terrorism

TW: Transphobia.

A letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, is being sent to the homes of transgender Kansans informing them that they must surrender their driver's licenses and that their current credentials will be considered invalid upon the House Substitute for Senate Bill 244’s publication in the Kansas Register on February 26.

House Substitute for Senate Bill 244 was passed on February 17, 2026, after the Kansas House overrode Governor Laura Kelly’s veto. Because of this, Kansas-issued driver's licenses and identification cards must now reflect the credential holder's “sex at birth.”

There is no grace period for updating credentials, and anyone operating a vehicle without a valid credential "may be subject to additional penalties." Those whose gender marker does not match their sex assigned at birth are directed to surrender their current credential to the Division of Vehicles for reissuance.

The consequences for noncompliance could escalate quickly. Under Kansas law, driving without a valid license is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. A conviction triggers an automatic 90-day license suspension. If a person drives during that suspension, they face a charge of driving on a suspended license, which carries a mandatory minimum of five days in jail. Kansas requires county jails to house inmates by sex assigned at birth.

This "bill" is also essentially a "Bathroom Bill", meaning that it mandates that multi-occupancy, private spaces in public buildings (such as restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms) are restricted to use based on biological sex. This "law" also allows individuals "aggrieved" by a violation of these privacy rules to bring a civil action, with potential for damages up to $1,000.00.

And again, there was no grace period given. This "law" is effective immediately. Schools, public buildings, businesses, even Government facilities are now all expected to scramble to help the State of Kansas employ transphobic discriminatory practices to the citizenry.

Let's keep it 100. This "law" is not about "protecting children and families" like these raggedy conservatives in Kansas want to keep stating. This law is meant to target, antagonize, profile, and terrorize anyone who is trans, non-binary, or expressing themselves in ways that do not fit the nonsensical gender binary that white supremacist culture insists we all bend the knee to.

This "bill" will protect no one. People are going to be followed into restrooms, harassed, profiled by law enforcement, and harassed by "good citizens." Kansas courts will be inundated with frivolous lawsuits from weak-willed, fragile, transphobic people insisting trans folx have done them harm by just existing in a space with them and expecting some kind of financial restitution.

This is domestic terrorism, pure and simple. And if you see it as anything other than that?

I'll let you connect the dots and label yourself.

On Renee Nicole Good, Normalizing Murder When It's Not One of Your Own, and White Supremacist Terrorism

TW: Murder, domestic terrorism, white supremacist terrorism

ICE murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis yesterday because they know that they can. Even with multiple videos of the murder being shared across every form of media possible, showing that this was indeed an unnecessary, murderous act, ICE agents know that they can kill, kidnap, assault, harass, and terrorize communities across this country without facing any repercussions.

Y’all’s president and his cabinet have spent the last 24 hours gaslighting us, telling us that Renee tried to “run over an ICE agent” and that other citizens who witnessed a murder in real time were “paid actors.” If you’ve watched any of the videos of the incident, you know good and well that everything they’re trying to force you to accept is a lie. The male of pallor news cycle has also been on the “she deserved it” bandwagon, saying everything they can to paint Renee’s murder as justifiable.

If you’re Black, Brown, Indigenous, a person of color, and/or a member of the LGBTQIAA+ community?

That all sounds like another Thursday.

The current precedent is that anyone viewed as an emissary of white supremacist terrorism can murder and terrorize people they view as an affront to white supremacy in front of a crowd of citizens and then “Jedi mind trick” their way out of any consequences for their actions to the point that the majority of the public forgets about what happened in seven days or less. The truth is, none of this is new. This level of whiteness and bigotry has always driven the normalization of the harm of Black, Indigenous, and Latino communities, communities of color, and LGBTQIAA+ communities on this stolen land we live on.

And please don’t act like you didn’t know this.

If you’re a person of pallor, you’ve been hearing and seeing testimonials and video footage from Black, Brown, and Indigenous folx for most of your life. You’ve seen the pleas for help and support from communities being terrorized or murdered by white supremacy for decades. You’ve seen white supremacist terrorists take people’s breath away with knees to their necks, kick in their doors and gun them down in cold blood, hang melanated bodies from trees, conduct mass shootings at our gathering places and celebrations, and now be mobilized by your government to kidnap and kill. Some of y’all have marched, protested, pushed for your state representatives to do better, and have been legitimate allies in fighting for others, and I appreciate y’all. But real talk?

The rest of y’all didn’t start caring about the oppression and murder of others until your government started blatantly attacking, harming, terrorizing, and murdering people of pallor in the same ways they’ve been targeting, terrorizing, and killing non-white and non-hetero communities for over a century.

Renee Nicole Good’s murder should be mourned. Renee’s family and community deserve justice. Her murderer should be held accountable. But let’s call a spade a spade: it shouldn’t take people of pallor being endangered in the same ways that melanated and queer communities are endangered every damn day for people of pallor to give a damn about white supremacy and its harmful impacts. And the fact that so many of y’all don’t get it to the point where y’all are out here acting shocked that something like this could happen, and co-opting the “Say Her Name” hashtag, a hashtag created by Black communities to amplify those murdered at the hands of white supremacist policing and terrorists who are regularly ignored by white supremacist media and social mores, to talk about Renee shows how you’re more uncomfortable with the fact that you couldn’t ignore a woman of pallor being murdered in the same ways you ignore everyone else being murdered more than anything else.

We’ve grown tired of asking people of pallor to show up for what seems like time immemorial. Most of us have just stopped asking because what’s the point? But now that the white supremacists are essentially killing and terrorizing their own, how long will y’all care? How long will y’all stay in the fight for justice and safety for everyone in your community, not just people of pallor? You’re angry about what happened. Will you carry that anger and energy into the next time a Black, Brown, or Indigenous person is murdered by white supremacist terrorists? Or will most of y’all be on to the next thing by next week?

We already know the answer.

We won’t be holding our breath waiting for you to prove us wrong.

(Sidenote: I haven’t watched any of the videos and do not plan on watching them. I have a strict personal policy around watching footage of anyone being murdered. If you do watch or have watched any of the videos out there of Ms. Good’s murder, please take care of yourself.)

What In The Hell Is Wrong With This Country?: December 2, 2025 Edition

TW: Transphobia.

In today's edition of “What In The Hell Is Wrong With This Country,” I give you Samantha Fulnecky.

From the Huffington Post:

““After Samantha Fulnecky, a University of Oklahoma junior, received a failing grade on an essay, she filed a report with her school alleging that she’s being discriminated against because of her religious beliefs. In response, the school put the instructor who gave her the grade on leave.

In a Thanksgiving Day post, the U of O chapter of Turning Point USA highlighted Fulnecky’s essay and her professor’s response to it. The assignment was to write a reaction to a psychology article on gender stereotypes in middle school students and how it affects their mental health.

In the paper, Fulnecky bases her argument nearly entirely around Christianity and the Bible, arguing that “Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts.” The college junior went on to write that, “Society pushing the lie that there are multiple genders and everyone should be whatever they want to be is demonic.”

Instructor Mel Curth gave the assignment a zero for not addressing the reading. Curth, who TPUSA and other news outlets identified as trans, opened their feedback note to Fulnecky by saying that they were not deducting points because of the student’s beliefs but rather because she did not follow the assignment, contradicted herself, made offensive comments, and did not provide empirical evidence.

The post also included feedback from another instructor, who said she agreed with Curth’s grading and that “[t]his paper should not be considered as a completion of the assignment.”

But what should have been a disappointing but not uncommon outcome in an academic setting turned into a referendum on trans people, attacks on the instructor’s gender identity, and higher education.

“We should not be letting mentally ill professors around students,” TPUSA said in a lengthy post. “Clearly this professor lacks the intellectual maturity to set her own bias aside and take grading seriously. Professors like this are the very reason conservatives can’t voice their beliefs in the classroom.””

So now Professor Curth - a person who was just doing their job (and was cosigned by another professor for their assessment of the raggedy-ass paper Samantha's fragile-ass turned in) - has been placed on leave and may lose their job or be forced to apologize and give Samantha a grade that she didn't earn. All while now being endangered by TPUSA's "call out" for the foreseeable future.

This is the future so many of y'all want, isn't it? To never be challenged, to believe you're "white and right" even when you're wrong, hateful, and harmful?

Well, it's a really violent and stupid future that benefits none of us.

And "none of us" includes willfully ignorant, thin-skinned, and devout "Christian" white supremacists like Samantha.

This Week's Opening Thought: December 1, 2025

This week's opening thought: When it comes to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, ableism, body-shaming, white supremacy, and oppresive language and behavior, way too many of y'all accept the bare minimum from the people in your lives.

Y'all be out here ready to celebrate people for getting someone's pronouns right 1 out of every 20 times they talk to them, saying things like, "I can really see that they're trying."

A whole bunch of y'all be out here inviting people to the cookout because someone taught them how to dougie and they've watched a couple of episodes of A Different World.

Too many of y'all be a little too proud of the toxic people in your life for only bodyshaming or mocking a friend or family member's body or disabilities every other time they see them.

Your acceptance of the bare minimum from the people in your life is aiding and abetting harm by finding every opportunity to not hold people accountable or remove them from your life if they show you time and again how unwilling they are to do better and be better. And guess what? That means you aren't meeting the bare minimum requirements of the allyship you love talkin' about.

Most of y'all ain't about that life. You're ficitional allies.

To paraphrase Kendrick Lamar, I'd cut my granny off, if she won′t see it how I see it.

You willing to do the same?

On Seeking Forgiveness and Being Undeserving Of It

It's funny how people didn't care that their vote would increase the cost of or outright eliminate healthcare options, terrorize communities with masked bootleg police and the U.S. military, devastate the job market, increase the cost of living, and dismantle and eliminate food assistance programs and other social services for millions of people because they somehow thought that Black folx, Brown folx, Indigenous folx, trans folx, and immigrants would be the only people harmed...until they found themselves also being hurt because, you know, all of the things mentioned above impact everyone and not just a couple of communities voters felt were expendable and disposable.

It's also funny how these same voters begged and pleaded like Keith Sweat for their president to save them for months on end, only to realize late last month that they would not be saved because their president had essentially used them to increase his wealth and power.

Hilarious.

Now, suddenly, it's y'all begging forgiveness on TikTok and Instagram for "mistakenly" voting for y'all's president (some of y'all in the last three presidential elections) and putting us in this autocracy.

Now it’s, "I made a mistake" and "We have to stick together."

Y'all can miss me with all of that.

I can care about you as a person, even if you don't care about me and mine, because I don't want to see anyone hurting and struggling. I'm a humanist and an empathic being. Even if you hate me, I want you to be okay. But let's keep it 100: you did not make a mistake. You knew what you were doing. All of you did. So nah, we are not "sticking together." I do not forgive, and I definitely will not forget.

Y'all need to learn that empathy only goes so far.

I do not have it in me to forgive you for willingly hoping others would suffer so you could thrive under a hateful regime. And I know I'm not the only one feeling this way.

Y'all expect people you harm to forgive you because you live in a country where white supremacy has trained y'all to abuse others and expect forgiveness. It ain't happenin' this time, and a bunch of y'all are starting to see this, and you're unraveling. A part of me feels sorry for you, for your despair. But it's a small part, because y'all have made it very clear that this was supposed to be your "survival of the fittest" moment and you're realizing that a whole bunch of y'all ain't the fittest. And knowing that probably sucks. But...well...

I hope that you survive what you've inflicted on all of us, because that's what I want for everyone. And most of y'all will survive because of the work and community programs created and led by the people you were hoping would be harmed by all of this. But that's all that you'll get from me, and all you should get from them. That's more than enough. And if you have a problem with hearing that?

Better go and embrace some of that greatness you voted for to keep you fed and wealthy while "liberals" decide whether to help y'all at all.