Amber Yust Changed Her Driver's License Gender And All She Got Was a Lousy Lette

[Shana A]

Amber Yust Changed Her Driver's License Gender And All She Got Was a Lousy Letter of Abomination

http://www.queerty.com/amber-yust-changed-her-drivers-license-gender-and-all-she-got-was-a-lousy-letter-of-abomination-20101210/

After reading about Amber Yust's awful DMV experience — where the transgender San Francisco woman received a letter from a DMV staffer calling her an "abomination" after trying to get her license renewed — Queerty commenter the crustybastard suggested, "Lawyer up." She did. And she's suing.

Yust, 23, merely wanted to change her official gender from "male" to "female," a process that should be as straightforward as checking a box. For the most part it was; the DMV staffer raised no objections during the process. But later that day Yust received a letter from the employee, identified by her lawyers as Thomas Demartini, saying that being gay (not trans?) was "an abomination that leads to hell."

[tekla]

That's not all she's going to get, she'll get a nice settlement from the DMV out of it too.  Which is sad, the first thing that should happen is that the offending employee should lose everything they own to pay for it.

[pixiegirl]

That's not all she's going to get, she'll get a nice settlement from the DMV out of it too.  Which is sad, the first thing that should happen is that the offending employee should lose everything they own to pay for it.

Actual people having to actually take responsibility for their own actions and pay for it themselves rather than hide behind a larger entity? Thats just crazy talk.