The Born Identity {Real ID Act}

[LostInTime]

Link 🔗 [Link: courant.com/hc-​nha-​0308-​nh11coversidebar11.artmar08,0,4610672.story/]

In the post-9/11 world, the transgender community might not have so much of an identity crisis as an identification problem.

Gender identity was enough of a headache before the 2001 terrorist attacks ushered in a new era of paranoia and ID checks that is forcing people of fuzzy gender to check "man" or "woman" on an endless stack of government forms.

The federal Real ID Act, passed by Congress in 2005, requires states to standardize driver's licenses by 2009 under the guise of stopping terrorists and illegal immigrants. But for the transgender community, it's creating a new set of obstacles.

[Melissa]

This is the very issue that has me worried about the REAL ID act.

Melissa

[katia]

that just [SUCKS}!

[LostInTime]

"Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, theyre red, white and blue.
And when the band plays hail to the chief,
Ooh, they point the cannon at you..."