Re-cap: Bringing Trans Issues to the Motor Vehicle Administrators Gathering
http://transgenderequality.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/re-cap-bringing-trans-issues-to-the-motor-vehicle-administrators-gathering/Yesterday I had the opportunity to give a presentation to the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) at their annual Spring Conference in New Orleans. AAMVA invited NCTE to speak to their members on providing appropriate and effective customer service to transgender people, as well as best practices for updating gender designations on driver's licenses and state ID cards. I discussed the growing trend toward streamlined policies that enable updates to be made quickly and easily with a simple form and without disclosure of detailed medical information, using the District of Columbia DMV policy as a model of this trend.
Having presented a webinar to AAMVA's members last year together with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, I was pleased to be able to meet so many of them in person. AAMVA's members, who are motor vehicle administrators from jurisdictions throughout the US and Canada, gave me a warm welcome and were very interested to hear about these topics, which every agency must deal with but which have until recently received little focused attention in most jurisdictions. I was impressed by how seriously AAMVA's members take providing professional service to all their customers and developing policies that work for everyone.
