Which Superpowerdo we get when we register as a Mutant of the Transgender Kind? I want fire.

Disturbing storyHaving seen the movie many times, I think the analogy is a damned good one, Autumn.

I suppose the camps are nextI really am disturbed by the similarities between now and nineteen thirties Germany.

One thing before the camps We’ll have to wear the Trans flag on our clothes.

Register… WTF?When people want transsexual or transgender people or for that matter any sort of LGBT/T people to register it is a serious warning that we should instead be exercising our Second Amendment rights to legally own the means to defend our selves.
Never again…

Awesome! Our benevolent benefactors will keep us safe!Will we also get pieces of flair?

That was my first thoughtGive me pyrokinesis and we’ll call it even. Yeah, sure register where I live and who I am, but I will unleash a Magneto style storm of fury if you try to use it against me.
Bring it.

Prop XThe whole X-Men story line they just finished, called Utopia, just finished dealing with the x-men & most mutants having moved to San Fransisco having to deal with a vote on Prop X.
They are getting pretty overt in their comparisons between mutancy & lgbtancy.  Not to mention that like almost every x-men team has at least two gay people.  X-Factor finally caught up & now has two bi-guys.
More seriously though, this sort of registration mentality should not be tolerated and should be shut down right now before anyone starts suggesting that people should be forced to wear a version of pink triangles.

First its register us….
Then they’ll want us to wear a symbol…maybe a pink triangle. Then they’ll offer us a free trip…maybe by train…to a nice idyllic place where we can camp. They’ll even have showers for us so we can wash our dirty minds in a nice cleansing gas that will be a final solution that they so desperately want… for the good old days of the nazi’s to come back.
When I hear these kind of remarks it just makes me fu@king p1ssed.  I’ll register for their god d3mned bu77sh1t when they pull my 2nd Amendment freedom from my cold dead hand.  
The X-Men comic  is partially based on the nazi and Jewish story and the Holocaust of the 1930′s/1040′s. It partially reflects the thalimide epidemic of the 50′s and 60′s worldwide.
I solildly identify with the early X-Men.  As an Intersexed person born in the 60′s… well…
My speical powers are;
Invisiblity, ask anyone at my work if there is anyone transgender working there and they’ll all say no.
Invulnarbility, I’ve been beaten time and again and yet I’m still here living and breathing.
ShapeShifter, I’ve had jet black hair, a great tan and brown eyes taking after my mom, I’ve also had blond hair, pale skin and blue/grey  taking after my dad. (that’s my speical chimera power at work!)

I am ok with the registration of groupsprovided that they start with that so sadly victimised minority: gun ownng evangelical Christian Republican males.

If you thought the movie was greatYou should read the actual comic arc the movie was based on. MUCH better than the movie. It was called “God Loves, Man Kills” and in it Stryker was a Reverend, instead of a military man. Between that arc and the original Phoenix saga, that is what got me reading X-Men comics.

In the current comicsone of the main current harassers of mutants is the religious group known as the Purifiers, and they are backers of the Human Now! coalition which gets involved on the evil side of things like Prop X.

Actually, Maura they are
Ask any NRA adherant (my biz partner is a complete loon about gun rights) and they will tell you that gun registration is just a way to target gun owners for the eventual confiscation of their arsenal.
They actually believe this BS – as if the US Government could possible confiscate the 300 MILLION guns in this country.  
The US is the single best armed country ever.  It scares the crap out of me.
My fat mid 50′s heavy drinking untrained brother (with a long history of clinical depression) recently decided that he needed handguns and a “nice semi auto carbine” to protect his house. He posts these Walter Middy blogs about “double taps” and “tactical retreats” and discusses the space needed to avoid attack by a “bladed weapon”. He has the reflexes of a sleeping manatee and drinks half a bottle of bourbon a night.  
I am certain that I will get a tragic phone call saying that he “accidentally” shot one of his teenage kids at 2AM as they snuck into the house.

Armed transgendered people don’t get registered.Why are we, as a demographic, so ready and willing to dispense with the best means of defending ourselves from just these sorts of legalized insults to our liberties and our lives? I would encourage everyone who reads PHB, but GLBT* people most of all, to get educated on the proper use of firearms, buy them, carry them (legally), and to join organizations like Pink Pistols ( http://www.pinkpistols.org/ ). As their motto says, “Armed gays don’t get bashed.” Well, to paraphrase, “Armed transgender people don’t get registered.”
If they want to take a page out of Marvel comic books and have a Tranny Registration Act, I can take a page out of a comic book too. My super power will be the power to fling small, aerodynamic lumps of copper and lead at high velocity sufficient to puncture internal organs and smash bones from great distance with great accuracy.
And how quickly they forget, but the entire Second Amendment WAS under grave threat just earlier this year. Anyone remember the professional lie from the professional liars about how 90% of all of the guns in Mexico were illegally purchased in America for export to fuel the narco-terror wars down there. It was so grave, we needed to ratify a treaty to make hand-manufacturing your own ammunition a crime. Yeah. That’ll solve everything…
Whatever happened to that? Oh, right, gun owners stood up, made their positions known to their elected officials and all talk of signing any anti-gun laws was quietly dropped.
What happened to ENDA? Oh, right. GLBT groups %cough%HRC%cough% pointlessly cut and run and the whole thing fractured as transgendered people were thrown under the bus.
Yeah, if I’m going to be defended from majority action, who should I look to first? The GLBT community, or Sturm Ruger & Co.?

Guilty until proven innocent = the Talibangical wayHow utterly un-American to try to stigmatize a whole class of people in this way.  Under our constitution people must be considered innocent unless proven guilty of a specific crime.  There is no footnote to that provision that says “…unless Japanese; transgender with a full bladder; elementary school student with gay parents…”.  

I don’t think he’s limiting this to transfolk, either

recommending an amendment to Gainesville’s ordinance that would require people who felt they qualified under the “gender identity” definition to have to register with the city.

I suppose that could include anyone who doesn’t fit into their neat little definitions of “man” or “woman,” really.
Even a straight (but effeminate) man, I suppose.

No folks… this is FASCISM…Jews, Gays and many were required to register and wear distinctive clothing markers.Eventually they were branded. Watch out its coming.Will you need to find hiding spots with friends? so the Gestapo don't come and drag you out into the streets?Stay OUT and PROUD and find your friends, or it could! When will all the super celebrity wealthy closeted LGBT see this?? Open advertising of our goodness is the only way to fight this hateful bigotry. 

Armed anybody gets registeredThat’s how you legally buy a gun.

Not in IndianaThere’s no such thing as mandatory gun registration in my home state, and there’s no registration at all in Vermont. Once you go through the background checks, the state government deliberately (as in by the law) destroys the paperwork. There’s no register for anyone to consult to find out if you own guns or not.
John Bunnell even whined about once it in his voice-over work over a video of some winter car chase scene from Indy.

I support the registryI mean if it protects women in bathrooms…
Now, moving on, next on the agenda a registry of pastors who are certifiably not pedophiles. Because if we’re into protecting folks by registering them, by all means lets be consistent. And the problem of child molestation actually exists. The problem of criminals using trans legislation to gain bathroom access is simply a fairy tale. Not.One. Crime…
Zero.
Zilch.
None.
 

Well, there are always the obvious connotationsWARNING: tongue in cheek comment follows:
Why stop at the slippery slope?  Why not go for the whole enchilada?
Perhaps the government might just decide to abandon the arbitrary and capricious binary assignments of sex, except for those who qualify for such assignments in all regards.
To this end the government could institute the following reforms for the preservation of binary purity:
Persons who are not able to prove complete and total genetic, physiological and psychological binary purity should not be entitled to the assignment of “male” or “female.”
All persons must have and be able to produce a complete personal genome and be able to show that they have all the known chromosomal and genetic markers that consistently show membership in one sex or the other.
The resolution of nuclear magnetic resonance imaging will be improved so that a deep scan of the hypothalamus will be able to result in an accurate neuron count of the central strata of the basal stria terminalis, without the necessity of dying a prepared slide of a slice of the brain tissue.  To be assigned “male” or “female” all persons must be able to establish a consistency with the personal genomic chromosomal and genetic markers.
All persons should be required to carry on their persons soft tissue scans showing their genital duct development – duct development that is not sufficiently mullerian or wolffian will not be deemed sufficiently pure for a female (mullerian) or male (wolffian) assignment.
To the extent possible, the results of all necessary information to determine genderal purity should be encoded in machine-readable form on driver’s licenses and government-issued identity cards. All persons must carry their cards at all times and provide them to police and other government officials on demand.  The department of homeland security will maintain a file on every non-binary person.
Persons who are not totally pure and entitled to the assignmnt of “male” or “female” must wear a distinctive patch on their clothing to indicate that they are not genderally pure, as a warning to those who are pure.  In order to warn persons whose vision or hearing is impaired, non-pure individuals must also carry a staff with a blinking light and chiming bells when they go out in public.
All persons not classified as either “male” or “female” will be denied the right to enter into or continue as part of a valid marriage, in any place where marriage is limited to a contract made between one “Man”  (meaning a pure male) and one “woman” (meaning a pure female).  Reproductive capacity alone is not deemed to be sfficient proof of genderal purity, even for the purpose of marriage.  
Pure male or female Children must all have pure male and pure female parents.  Non-pure personss will bot be allowed access to children, or jobs that involve contact with children.
Pure single parents who do not find a pure person of the opposite sex to form a a married parental unit will have their pure children removed within three months of birth or three months of the effective date of these rules, whichever is later.
Non-pure children will be raised in a creche maintained by non-pure persons only, in a segregated area, and will be educated only in sub-standard schools for the performance of menial tasks and entertainment.
Non-genderally pure persons will not be permitted to use the same bathrooms as pure persons, or the same water fountains, and will not be allowed to mingle with pure persons in places of public accommodation.
I could go on.
. . . so who needs a special registration system just for transgender persons when it would be more efficient to protect the binarily pure citizens from anyone whose binary purity cannot be proved beyond any shred of doubt?
 

I didn’t know thatThat’s actually kind of frightening to me.
I mean, my choice of the Spanish word for “dove” as my username probably says something about how likely I am to buy a gun under any circumstances.

InterestingI haven’t read the comics since they killed Jean Grey again but that sounds like a interesting arc.

UnfortunatelyFor far too many of us the lapel markings aren’t needed.