Transgender Woman Mocked At Utah DMV, Forced To Scrub Off Makeup

http://prideinutah.com/?p=10545

Salt Lake City, Utah – Not a highlight of our state. On Thursday this week, a transgender woman entered a local DMV to renew her license only to find half the staff mocking and ridiculing her, including security forcing her to scrub off her makeup and pull her hair back before she could take her photo.

Local resident Amber Anderton watched a horrifying scene play out in front of her this past Thursday at the DMV located at 1095 Motor Ave. (approx. 200 N 1000 W) in Salt Lake City, as a transgender woman sat down at the photo station to renew her license. "When the DMV worker looked at her," says Amber, "he immediately left and got another employee, whispered in their ear and they both began laughing as they looked back at the woman. They both then went and got security who escorted the woman back to a supervisor's office. When they came back out the woman was taken to the restroom where she had to scrub off her makeup and pull her hair back before they would let her take her license photo."

I'm a little curious about the makeup.

Is makeup permitted on driving licience photographs?

We're talking about Utah here.  If being a mental retard case was a perquisite, then you'd be governor there.

Good old Salt Lick City, Retard.  The home of the Moron Religion.  A city found by persecuted people so they can persecute people they don't like.

Not all Mormons are bad, just the ones in power.

Could you imagine the uproar if this had happened to a cis gendered woman?    What if the article read...


Do you think there may have been an issue taken with that?

Hi, 

Try that here & id have the police H R C  = human rights com on thier   backs Plus id be taking that a lot higher up the ladder  & have them put in thier place or fired ,

as to hair so long as its not covering the persons face they can not force that or the make up issue  & iv had my pics taken for passports as well . & with make up on plus hair, & iv been over seas   .
Has any one raised this with your groups or not  id allso make a very strong point to the D M V  concerning this . A case of harrisment .

Just writen a email to them .

...noeleena...

That poor woman, I hope she sues the lot of them.

What an evil way to treat a person.

Cindy

I wish they would have said which restroom they made her go to to remove the makeup.

What business what it of theirs to dictate how she needed to look anyway? She was still following regulations. Maybe someone should force a wig and makeup on those employees next time they renew their liscense (or shave their heads and scrub off their makeup if they were female employees.)

Utah is a theocratic oligarchy based on cismale supremacy.  The oligarch's seem to also mis read their own history which was being on the receiving end of religious persecution less that two hundred years ago.  The "elected" officials are "beholding" to the oligarchs for social and "heavenly" approval.  Even the cis woman who was offended by the actions against the transwoman was a second class citizen and therefor the response to her by the "civil (a^&h*le male) servants". 

Continuing Story – State Denies Trans-Discrimination, But Victim Speaks Out

http://prideinutah.com/?p=10572

Salt Lake City, Utah –

Over the weekend, we posted the horrifying story of a transgender woman who was mocked, laughed at, and forced to scrub off her makeup before she was allowed to get her photo taken to renew her drivers license. But in an article by the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday, the Utah Drivers License Division is claiming that not only did their employees not laugh or ridicule this Transgender woman, but that they have video to prove it.Local Transgender Advocacy Group, "TEA of Utah" was allowed to view security footage and they reported to the Trib that they did not witness any behavior out of the ordinary.

But now the victim is stepping up, and has identified herself as Regina Audette. Here's what she had to say last night:

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State denies discrimination took place at driver license office

By Rosemary Winters

The Salt Lake Tribune
First published Mar 28 2011 07:06PM

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/home/51518414-76/division-anderton-transgender-utah.html.csp

Although one bystander says a transgender woman was wrongly "humiliated" at the Utah Driver License Division last week, the division says an investigation revealed Monday that state employees acted appropriately.

And the Transgender Education Advocates of Utah (TEA of Utah) backs the state. Members of the advocacy group reviewed surveillance videos on Monday as part of the state's investigation.

"The employees did follow procedure," said Teinamarrie Scuderi, associate director of TEA of Utah.

Continuing Story: DMV Sits Down With Victim Of Trans-Discrimination, Pledges Improvement

http://prideinutah.com/?p=10601

Salt Lake City, Utah – In the last chapter of this amazing (and horrible) story, it looks like we get to end on a positive note. The Salt Lake Drivers License Division sat down with the victim of last week's Trans-Discrimination and pledged to do everything they can to improve, with the hopes that this won't happen again.

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But finally today the Drivers License Division sat down with Regina Audette, the witness to the discrimination Amber Anderton, as well as openly gay attorney Chris Wharton and reviewed the footage with them.

@ Virginia Marie, imagine if the Bishops wife looked like Tammy Faye Baker? They'd STILL be scrubbing off the makeup!

LOLZ 

Transgender woman meets with driver license director
Published on Mar 31, 2011 06:32PM
Rosemary Winters

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogslgbt/51542380-61/audette-transgender-rolfe-woman.html.csp

The Utah Driver License Division met Wednesday with a transgender woman who allegedly faced discrimination when she visited the agency's Fairpark Office in Salt Lake City.

"We did express our apology if she felt like she had been mistreated in our office," said Nannette Rolfe, director of the division. "We want to make sure our employes are treating everyone with respect and dignity."

QuoteRolfe said her office has not found any evidence of wrongdoing in a review of surveillance videos of the incident.

Well of course not.  They would never find fault.  What happen to "the customer is always right".

Quote from: Janet Lynn on April 01, 2011, 10:39:26 AM
Well of course not.  They would never find fault.  What happen to "the customer is always right".

Heh, with government run institutions, the state is right your wrong, and in some countries if you disagree,  they give you a full metal jacket grievance sorting device which makes it impossible for you to worry about it ever again.