ADVISORY: REAL ID Act Regulations Released

[LostInTime]

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While the regulations and the Real ID Act itself could dramatically impact trans people in negative ways, trans people should keep the following in mind:

• The regulations issued today are draft regulations. There is a comment period during which NCTE and many other organizations will be submitting comments to DHS about how damaging these regulations would be if implemented.
• The Real ID Act is now not scheduled to begin implementation until December 31, 2009.
• Since the Real ID passed in 2005, NCTE and many other organizations representing state governments, immigrants, civil libertarians and others have worked diligently to overturn the Act. (That effort has taken on steam lately, with the legislature of the State of Maine voting to refuse to comply with the Real ID Act. It is our assessment that other states will follow this lead over the next few months making implementation of the Act increasingly difficult.)
• There are several bills before Congress supported by NCTE and many others that would repeal the Real ID Act.

[Julie Marie]

I really hope this thing gets overturned and not just for trans-related reasons.

LIT, thanks of keeping us informed.

Julie

[LostInTime]

I have my fingers crossed.

And you are most certainly welcome.



Thank you for reading.

[Melissa]

• The Real ID Act is now not scheduled to begin implementation until December 31, 2009.

Yes!    That buys me more time to transition.  I was so worried about the previous date.  I'm sure I can have SRS and get my docs changed by the new date.

Melissa

[Shana A]

I really hope this thing gets overturned and not just for trans-related reasons.

Likewise! I hope more states follow Maine and this gets voted out, it has negative impacts for many people, trans and otherwise. Shades of 1984 anyone?

zythyra

[kaelin]

If the Dems lock the Presidency and control 60 seats in the Senate (and of course also still control the House), they'll be able to repeal it in a heartbeat.  The former seems likely, the but the latter could be a tricky thing to do.

If nothing else, it's three more years for me to find a new place to live.

[tinkerbell]

That is very good news!  Thanks very much for posting this article LIT.  As I said previously, the real ID Act is not your friend if you are TS; it doesn't matter if you are pre-op, post-op, or whatever.  I will also keep my fingers crossed; hopefully it'll get overturned.

tinkerbell

[LostInTime]

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