Florida will no longer allow false information about gender on driver’s licenses.
Florida has announced that it will prohibit people who identify as transgender from changing their gender on their state driver’s license. report According to NBC News.
Robert Kinnock, deputy executive director of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, on Friday plans to repeal a provision in the driver’s license operations manual that allowed the agency to list a false gender on a driver’s license, according to reports. This is what he told the ministry’s executive director.
Kinnock explained that the department does not have the power to enforce the provision that allows individuals to change the gender on their driver’s license.
She added that the term “gender” in this article “does not refer to an individual’s internal sense of sexual role or gender identity, but rather refers to an individual’s innate and innate nature. It has been understood as a synonym for “sex,” which is determined by Immutable biological and genetic characteristics. ”
“A driver’s license is an identification document, and as such plays an important role in helping public and private organizations to accurately establish the identity of the person presenting the license,” Kinnock said at the ministry. wrote in a memo to the executive director.
“Allowing individuals to change their licenses to reflect an internal sense of sexual role or identity that is neither immutable nor objectively verifiable undermines the purpose of identification documents and undermines the ability of states to enforce their laws.” “This could hinder the development of the system,” he added. .
Additionally, Kinnock noted that misrepresenting your gender on your driver’s license is fraud and can result in criminal and civil penalties, including revocation, suspension or revocation of your driver’s license.
Molly Best, the department’s director of public affairs, confirmed the policy change to NBC News, saying individuals will no longer be able to use documents such as driver’s licenses from other states or U.S. passports to apply for new Florida licenses. It added that the person’s gender can be proven by US birth certificate.
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