ITD Changes Transgender Rule

The Idaho Transportation Department this week agreed to new regulations allowing transgender drivers to change the sex designation on their driver’s licenses without a note from a surgeon, the Associated Press reports, after two people complained that previous policy violated their civil rights. In April 2011, the state highway agency began requiring a signed surgeon’s note signifying the individual “had undergone a complete surgical change of gender.” Early this year, two people said they were blocked from getting their driver’s licenses, based on this policy /Betsy Russell , Eye on Boise. More here.

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