No license to deride
   
Transmissions
Published 01/13/2011

by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=155

In late 2010, a woman filed paperwork at her local Department of Motor Vehicles office. This specific time, it wasn't the typical driver's license paperwork, but a California DMV form DL-328. This piece of paper, filled out by you and a medical professional, allows the California DMV to change your name and gender marker on your driver's license or state identification card.

This woman, Amber Yust, was doing what I once did, at the same DMV office. It is simply part of the process to get one's identification paperwork in order when one transitions. In California, unlike most other states, one can get all this paperwork sorted out in full without the need for any surgical intervention – something that not all states provide for.