South Carolina transgender teen takes new license photo after winning lawsuit

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South Carolina transgender teen takes new license photo in makeup after winning lawsuit against DMV: 'It's me'

http://www.topix.com/news/transgender/2015/06/1506309MK74J

BY Melissa Chan
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 12:37 PM
Updated: Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 1:08 PM

Chase Culpepper, a transgender teen from South Carolina, finally got a new driver's license photo after winning a federal lawsuit that allows her to wear makeup.

A South Carolina transgender teen beamed in makeup and stood tall in heels as she retook her driver's license photo after winning a settlement in a hard-fought lawsuit against the state's DMV.


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Score! A giant victory for a lovely girl, another small victory for us all.

[Shana-chan]

Finally! I'm glad she won. I still need to get a new state ID for myself at some point, so hopefully I won't have to put up with BS if I choose to wear any make up. Just one problem, what about glasses? I wear glasses pretty much all day, it's also me, but I remember when I last got my state ID they forced me to take them off. It wasn't a big deal to me back then but is now since, without the glasses I have a harder time passing...

[rachel89]

It is frustrating that we have to fight to be able to normal things, that normal people don't really like to do that much. No one likes a dirty public restroom, its insulting that we have to fight to be able to use something most people would prefer not think about. Any sane person hates going the DMV, and the pictures they take are always terrible. It is insulting that we need to fight to get a terrible picture taken so we can get a license. These kind of fights are tiring. GLB people just won the right to marry, while we are stuck fighting for the right to pee and right to be dealt with by government bureaucracies in the normal surly and obtuse manner they seem to treat everyone else with instead of the "special treatment" they sometimes give transgender people.