Transgender activists in Florida hold desperate demonstrations at driver’s license offices across the Sunshine State to protest new rules that make it a crime to change the gender on a driver’s license to reflect a person’s gender identity. I did it.
Dozens of people wearing transgender flags and orange traffic safety vests entered lobbies and offices in Miami, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Gainesville on Friday morning, according to videos posted on social media. He appeared and lay down. Prism, Youth Action Fund, Equality Florida, Hope Community Center, GLSEN Central Florida, and SPEKTRUM Health organized the protest.
“Attendees will perform a die-in to highlight the devastating consequences of efforts to remove legal recognition for the transgender community,” Prism said in a press release.
Activists protested in response to a recent decision to ban transgender residents from changing their gender on driver’s licenses and state ID cards.
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Transgender activists in Florida hold desperate demonstrations at driver’s license offices across the Sunshine State to protest new rules that make it a crime to change the gender on a driver’s license to reflect a person’s gender identity. I did it. (Adobe Stock)
Robert Kinnock, deputy executive director of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, said in a memo to county tax collectors that “misrepresenting gender (understood as gender) on a driver’s license constitutes fraud.” , said people with licenses who misrepresent their biological sex could be punished. “Criminal and civil penalties, including revocation, suspension, and revocation of driver’s licenses.”
According to The Advocate, activists protesting at a DMV took to the wall with cardboard tombstones with various phrases written on them, including “Killed by Ron DeSantis” and “Killed by the DMV.” They were seen lining up towards the
The Florida Legislature is also considering the What Is a Woman Act, which would prohibit licenses from reflecting a gender other than one’s biological sex?
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The Florida Legislature is also considering the What Is a Woman Act, which would prohibit licenses from reflecting a gender other than one’s biological sex? (Getty)
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“The term “gender”…does not refer to an individual’s inner sense of sexual role or gender identity, but has historically and generally been understood as a synonym for “sex,” an innate and determined by unchanging biological and genetic characteristics,” Kinnock wrote in a memo.
Previously, Florida residents could change the gender on their driver’s license by submitting either a court order requiring a name change or a letter from a doctor regarding gender reassignment treatment.
