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Infuriated on behalf of my coworker - US push to disenfranchise women (lemmy.world)
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My coworker went to renew her driver's license.

They sent her back, said she needed a birth certificate because she didn't have the star on it yet. She's old and from some small town up north so this took 6 months plus another to get another DMV appointment.

She went back yesterday and they said no, you also need the marriage certificate from your first marriage, the divorce documentation, the marriage certificate from your second marriage and the divorce documentation from that too.

So now her license is expired, and she can't renew it until some tiny vital statistics department far from here responds to her with paper copies of all those items.

I am wildly infuriated.

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[–] 12 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

One of the many reasons my partner decided not to change their name. Something similar happened with their mother, so now they are paranoid(rightfully so) of it happening to them.

And getting any kind of medical treatment involving reproductive organs is always a fight since we live in a religious area and the hospital is primarily donated to by churches. They want a total hysterectomy due to severe pain/endo, and I swear if I hear "what will your future husband want" one more goddamn time I'm going to beat them with a rock. Medical treatment is already a nightmare for women.

We are married, and people assume since we have different last names I'm just a friend. And OBVIOUSLY every woman wants nothing more than to be an uneducated, subservient incubator that can't even drive themselves somewhere without a licensed chaperone... Right?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago

    I don't think you understand... Even if they think they know what they want now, they might change their mind about it later.

    /s obviously but this is an actual argument that has been used on me and it's infuriating! This argument makes sense only on small children, and it's telling that we think it can be applied to override grown women's decisions too.

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