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"A woman is like a child": MAGA quickly turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power (www.salon.com)
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[–] -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

A passport always contains the current last name. If you took on a new one you have to get a new one issued. That's standard pretty much all over the world.

Edit: Ok, a lot of users wrote that there's no ID card/paper that's common in other parts of the world. In my country a driver license is not enough to prove my identity because it's not an ID card.

Guess you are fucked then.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Birth certificates can't be changed and need to match, and that's one of the forms of ID listed.

    Passports aren't free, and not everyone has one to begin with. This blatantly stonewalls women, especially underprivileged women.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Some states allow you to update your birth certificate after a legal name change. It's definitely not universal, and much less likely in red states.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Some states allow you to update your birth certificate after a legal name change.

    This also has a fee attached.

    It’s definitely not universal, and much less likely in red states.

    Yeah, even just checking, and it looks like Massachusetts doesn't allow name changes for this purpose, and really only does it to correct mistakes at the time a record was made: "For example, you cannot change your birth record solely for a legal change of name. "

    Did they even think any of this through? LOL

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Americans are pretty weird about their ID things.

    Other than a driver's license, most of them don't have any ID.

    They don't have any sort of unique ID number either. They have a social security number, which is not guaranteed to be unique. Two people can have the same SSN. One person can have two SSNs. You're apparently supposed to keep your SSN secret, but they're assigned somewhat sequentially and they get leaked a lot. It's a clusterfuck.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    SSNs are guaranteed to be unique upon assignment. The problem is that so many leaks have happened that nearly everyone's has been stolen and is being used in some type of financial identity theft. The thieves are the people with two (or more) SSNs.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It is supposed to to keep your SSN secret and not carry the card with you everywhere but you have to memorize it and everyone and their dog is gonna ask for it. It is kinda scary how many times you have to give it out to random people over the phone or email.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The sad thing is this is kinda solved in the advertising space. Like, they know who I am, uniquely, including emails, phone numbers, and drivers license. The data is available, but banks (the primary users of the SSN) are perpetually stuck with 30yo tech.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    SSN is about the worst identifier, but they have revamped the process to remove some of those issues. It should no longer be possible for people to be issued the same number, and they're no longer sequential or assigned in geographic blocks.

    Doesn't change the existing ones, but going forward.

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