DMV says no makeup for driver's license photo; boy sues
Another couple of transgenders - 2 males who dress as women, were also refused drivers licenses unless they removed their drag - and appeared to be the sex listed on the application (male)- they each wanted to change their licenses to change their name to a more female sounding name and have their photos as women.
Thoughts? In my opinion allowing people to list things other than what they are, opens the door to all kinds of identification problems and would allow for terrorism or criminal activity to more easily occur.
read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/justice/south-carolina-drivers-license-makeup/The mother of a 16-year-old filed a federal lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles on Tuesday claiming her son was sexually discriminated against when he was forced to remove his facial makeup for a driver's license photo.
Chase Culpepper, 16, was born a male but is gender nonconforming. He regularly wears makeup and clothing typically worn by women, according to the lawsuit.
After passing his driver's test in June, Chase went to have his license photo taken. But an employee at the office asked him to remove his makeup.
The employee told Chase he couldn't wear "a disguise" and didn't look "like a boy should," the teen told CNN affiliate WYFF.
The lawsuit says Chase was discriminated against based on the employee's gender stereotypes and Chase's constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression were violated....
Another couple of transgenders - 2 males who dress as women, were also refused drivers licenses unless they removed their drag - and appeared to be the sex listed on the application (male)- they each wanted to change their licenses to change their name to a more female sounding name and have their photos as women.
read more here: http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/07/living/transgender-dmv-complaint-west-virginia/index.html"(A manager) told me it was a DMV policy that people listed as male could not wear makeup," said Kristen Skinner. "The manager referred to me as 'it' and told me to take off my makeup, wig and fake eyelashes."
Skinner, whose hair and eyelashes were her own and not fake, eventually took the license photo after removing all facial makeup.
The 45-year-old IT professional called the experience at the Charles Town office in Jefferson County on January 7 "humiliating."
"The way I was treated was unprofessional," Skinner said. "Isn't the point of a photo identification to identify how you look every day?"
Trudy Kitzmiller said she had a similar experience many months later in neighboring Berkeley County. According to her, after showing all the legal paperwork to change her name on her driver's license, DMV workers in Martinsburg demanded she remove all makeup, jewelry and long hair.
The 52-year-old says she was also called "it."
"It doesn't matter whether my license says M or F. I'm still a transgendered woman, and they shouldn't tell me how to dress or appear," Kitzmiller said.
Thoughts? In my opinion allowing people to list things other than what they are, opens the door to all kinds of identification problems and would allow for terrorism or criminal activity to more easily occur.