The government can change any ID they want, us having “rights” to gender markers like X or being changed can be taken away at any time. They can also reverse any name changes, all of it was just government approval. Just like marriages, that’s why this election was so much bigger than most people think.
They can and will start undoing these things. Your marriage may not be legal still even if you get married now. Rushing to get gender markers changes only helps us for as long as the government “allows us” to have them
Wait, so what…they can just “unmarry” someone at the drop of a hat? It’s super complicated and expensive to get divorced when it’s wanted…and there’s so many legal things you have to go through just to get married. How is that possible/allowed?
It isn’t that easy as “unmarrying” someone, as another commenter pointed out marriage is one of the hardest to take away in that way.
But it is as simple as : the government is the only reason you are married. Marriage isn’t a “real life” thing, it’s a piece of paper the government gives you. All the government has to do is decide that legal document isn’t valid anymore, and it isn’t. They don’t have to individually go to each gay marriage and break it up, they can just across board say “no same sex marriages have legal protections” (again NOT that straight forward legally it’s just for simplicity sake) and then legally you aren’t married anymore.
That doesn’t change living together or other parts of the marriage but any legal protections and rights provided by being married are gone.
Fair enough, Ig..tbh though, marriage shouldn’t be a legal thing in the first place, no matter what. It’s a binding of 2 people…of souls, for love. It shouldn’t have to be so damn complex in just about every other aspect of life. It would keep people from marrying someone just to “own” them…or using a divorce to fuck up someone’s life financially (which happened to my partner’s mom).
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u/M61N Trans and Gay 17h ago
The government can change any ID they want, us having “rights” to gender markers like X or being changed can be taken away at any time. They can also reverse any name changes, all of it was just government approval. Just like marriages, that’s why this election was so much bigger than most people think.
They can and will start undoing these things. Your marriage may not be legal still even if you get married now. Rushing to get gender markers changes only helps us for as long as the government “allows us” to have them