• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Well, what is the function of having sex/gender on an ID? It’s to make someone more identifiable, right?

    That means that “verification” only needs to be visual. The purpose is to be able to tell, at a glance, that the ID and the person are a match. That’s why eye color and height are on there too. Precise record keeping is for the court house and hospital records, not a driver’s license.

    By using sex and making that unchangeable it actually makes my ID less useful for identifying me.

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      9 months ago

      And if someone wants to change the sex/gender on their ID and nothing else, with the explicit intention of becoming less identifiable?

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        9 months ago

        This process is already gatekept, to my knowledge. In my state, changing your legal gender id or name requires going through the courts and a substantial amount of legal paperwork - even if you do so without a lawyer, there are some substantial fees associated with that process. Not to mention if someone wanted to become less identifiable, they probably wouldn’t want to do that in a way that is available as public record. Personally, I’d probably just get a haircut - they’re a lot faster and a lot cheaper.

        Additionally, banning everyone - especially banning exclusively trans people - from fixing their documentation is not a reasonable solution to your hypothetical problem, a fact so obvious anyone arguing in good faith almost certainly would have caught it.

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          9 months ago

          You had an opportunity to educate me. You chose instead to insult me. I’ll carry on with my ignorance then. Thanks for shoring up my position.

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        9 months ago

        Then they’d get harassed by cops for having a suspected fake ID and have to go through the trouble of proving its their actual ID.

        Like I am going to be when we get a law like this.