Driver's licenses let applicants pick gender
State allows men to identify themselves as women
Posted: January 31, 2009
12:00 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
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The state of Massachusetts, which has been at the forefront of normalizing homosexual relationships in law, has taken a bold new step to allow applicants for drivers licenses to select their gender on official documents.
The decision by Rachel Kaprielian became public when an organization promoting family values obtained a copy of a letter she dispatched to a homosexual lobbying organization.
The letter to Marc Solomon of MassEquality said the state Registry of Motor Vehicles "has amended its policy to enable transgendered individuals to more easily change the gender designation on their licenses and identity cards."
Awesome.
I wonder how many will abuse this though.
Abuse it how exactly? What matters to the police anymore is the data encoded on the ID, not anything the ID says, except for the picture.
For fraud purposes.. I know of a few over here who have done it to get out of trouble with debts..
Massachusetts is so awesome. If I can't live in NYC I'll move there, lol.
I'm all for this form of self identity becoming the norm at every level, right down to each and every vital record. There should be one asterisk attached to this: *You can make a gender change only once in your life. Otherwise, as Jay said, people will abuse it. The once in a lifetime rule will also make people think twice before they do it.
Since our vital records can and have been used to discriminate against us, it's important to minimize discrimination for everyone on the planet.
Julie
But won't someone think of the children?! ::)
In all sincerity though, it's probably a good thing. I couldn't agree with the "once in a lifetime rule" though that Julie Marie suggests, since that would create a major burden for people who have to detransition.
Lia
well I will only need to make the change once!
I will be living there within the next year
I already planned on moving back there
as the town I live in right in the next state
is not trans friendly IMO
Besides Massachusetts is the state I was born in...
yeah I'm a southie chic bred in Boston, and I have
a good feeling that transition will be alot easier for me
there, and this license thing is an added bonus.