Same Old Story

It is a story that we hear over and over, trans people experiences at their state motor vehicle department. In so many states we are told to remove our make-up or they insist to mis-gender us.

Transgender female turned away at Baton Rouge OMV for not looking like a man
WAFB
By Kevin Frey
Posted: Sep 09, 2015

BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) -
A self-identified transgender woman was denied a driver's license at the Baton Rouge Office of Motor Vehicles on Friday after being told she did not suitably look like a man.

"It's such discrimination that you just feel powerless," Alexandra Glover said.

Born a boy named Dylan, Glover's birth certificate says she is a male. While at the OMV to replace a lost ID card, Glover wore makeup and a dress, which was a red flag for the clerk.

"If you have makeup on or anything like that, you're supposed to take all that off, because you are actually man," the clerk told Glover.

"Our employees cannot take a photograph of someone who is portraying themselves to be somebody they are not," said Stephen Campbell, the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles for Louisiana.

This is just public officials enforcing their own brand of bigotry on us. When the commissioner says “Our employees cannot take a photograph of someone who is portraying themselves to be somebody they are not” he is denying medical research and healthcare associations like the AMA. APA, NASW, and WPATH.