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My girlfriend is trans. She doesn’t look ANYTHING like a man. In a few months she won’t even have a penis. But if she had to go through this and have her license say M on it, anyone reading it will be extremely confused.

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glibg10b@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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- PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Because if she lived in Kansas, in a few months she won’t have any external male parts whatsoever, and if she had to put an M on her license it wouldn’t even make sense.
  
  I was providing an example of just how utterly stupid this law is.
  
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  - NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’m sorry she’s having to deal with this BS. I have a feeling the next step is to arrest her in a pullover for having an invalid license when the cop doesn’t believe the M instead of the F and says it’s fake.
    
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    PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    She’s (I say this with a massive amount of sigh) fortunately in Ohio, so doesn’t have to deal with this. I’m still working on seeing if she can file for refugee status here in Canada and she can move here.
    
    But what you are saying is 100% part of the point. Make trans people’s licenses look like they’re fake. A trans male who looks more dude than me, a cis man, with an F on his license might get more harassed about it, arrested, etc. The cruelty is the point. The right knows they can’t just make being trans illegal. But they can sure work their way towards it slowly. And this is just another step towards it.
    
    First they came for.
    
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dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Definitely, all I’m saying is that she will still have a license and still will be able to drive.

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- PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Except now her license would have an M on it, even thought she looks completely like a woman. Driving isn’t the issue here. Anywhere that checks ID like bars, liquor stores, anywhere would now see her license, see an M, look at her, and think it’s either fake, or outing her publicly as trans.
  
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  - dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Oh, yeah that’s a problem. I didn’t even consider using driver licenses as an ID, I’m used to having a national ID and forgot that’s not a thing in the US.
    
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