The Transitive Property: Drinking and Driving
Monday, February 7th, 2011 | By Cristopher Bautista
http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/02/07/the-transitive-property-drinking-and-driving/Last Friday, I finally mustered up the courage to go to the DMV and renew my driver's license under my new name so I could finally buy alcohol with dignity. Getting my new driver's license was also special because it would be the only official government document that would have preferred gender on it. For other documents, such as social security and passports, I would have to remain legally female until I've gone through sexual reassignment surgery (or SRS, for short), an option that if I decided on it, would be far off in the future. But for the driver's license, things are a bit different — at least in the state of California, one can change one's gender on a driver's license with the signed consent of a psychologist or physician licensed in the United States. So, of course I would take the opportunity to finally be recognized as male.
