gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agoTrans people in Florida can no longer update their driver’s licenses: A new state rule may expose trans people to criminal or civil penalties if they try to update their documentation.19thnews.orgexternal-linkmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1544arrow-down125file-text
arrow-up1519arrow-down1external-linkTrans people in Florida can no longer update their driver’s licenses: A new state rule may expose trans people to criminal or civil penalties if they try to update their documentation.19thnews.orggAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square101fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarequindraco@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·9 months agoThe real question here is why driver’s licenses have a gender field; we can’t sanely discuss questions about it (including why “they” care about this field so much) without answering this first. The general answer seems to be that law enforcement can match it against records to determine if someone might be a subject of interest they’re on the lookout for. Since the new Florida policy makes this harder, by raising the odds that a license does not match current records… I have no answer for you.
The real question here is why driver’s licenses have a gender field; we can’t sanely discuss questions about it (including why “they” care about this field so much) without answering this first.
The general answer seems to be that law enforcement can match it against records to determine if someone might be a subject of interest they’re on the lookout for.
Since the new Florida policy makes this harder, by raising the odds that a license does not match current records… I have no answer for you.