I wonder why so many trans people are forced to detransition..
Maybe it's because of the rise in transphobia? The anti-trans legislation? People losing access to life-saving gender affirming care?
It must all just be a trend, huh..
This shit is spreading like wildfire all across Europe and we need to fight it before it becomes the norm. We shouldn’t encourage business owners passing the responsibility of providing a living wage on to the customers.
Here's where this goes...
Firstly, kiss successful insurance claims goodbye.
Any accident will be blamed on "sub-optimal driver performance", and that time your hands moved briefly from the 10-and-2 or your eyeline wasn't correctly picked up by the mirror sensor will be used to blame your fender-bender on you.
Secondly, there will be a big "people drive dangerously" propaganda push. "ADDW data harvesting has shown up 80% of us might be driving more recklessly than we think", or "most veteran drivers slip in to bad habits, reports show".
Then comes the new legislation to act on this totally fabricated problem. What is it? Oh, it's re-certification. Every driver has to be re-certified after X years on the road.
Or maybe your driver monitoring data will be uploaded to a database and scanned for errors. Those errors put points on your license and if you go over a certain number of points, your ability to drive is taken away pending recertification.
You can appeal, and drive while the appeal takes place. But the appeal fee is greater than the recertification fee, and if you lose, you have to pay legal costs, and you're not allowed to drive for double the usual amount of time.
You'll have to pay a "processing" fee for re-certifying, of course, and if you fail, you'll have to wait X amount of months before you can try again.
Headlines will celebrate both the (fictional) decrease in traffic fatalities and that the smaller number of private vehicles on the road has improved the pollution levels in the inner cities.
An opinion piece from an anonymous "former driver" will appear in the Guardian "I lost my drivers license, and it's the best thing that ever happened to me".
It will talk up how much money they're saving on petrol and road tax, and how much fitter they get walking everywhere and how they know their neighbours so well now.
And all sorts of cosy anecdotes about the charming characters and life-affirming tableaux that public transport exposes you to.
india just passed an anti trans bill, trans people were banned from the olympics, and a black trans woman was just murdered in the united states and people somehow care more about promoting their wizard show that is directly funding transphobes to kill us and take our rights away