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Quietly and behind the scenes last month, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, or FLHSMV, issued a memo indicating that it will no longer honor Floridians’ requests to amend the gender marker on their driver’s licenses. “Permitting an individual to alter his or her license to reflect an internal sense of gender role or identity, which is neither immutable nor objectively verifiable, undermines the purpose of an identification record,” Robert Ky...

Bill mandates insurance carriers cover discredited practice and would force people to list sex assigned at birth on driver’s licenses

Quality Journalism for Critical Times More than a hundred activists supporting transgender rights marched and held a rally outside the Capitol on Wednesday in protest of a bill scheduled to go for a vote in the Florida House this week that would require driver’s licenses to display a person’s sex assigned at birth, rather than the gender identity. The bill […] The post Transgender activists came to Tallahassee to protest House bill on driver’s licenses appeared first ...

Bill mandates insurance carriers cover discredited practice and would force people to list sex assigned at birth on driver’s licenses

The FLHSMV says its new policy applies only to requests for replacement licenses and apps for new licenses haven’t changed. But there are many unanswered questions.

(CNN) — Floridians can no longer elect to update or change their gender on Florida driver’s licenses, according to a memo sent to state officials by the Department<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/local/florida/florida-residents-can-no-longer-elect-to-change-their-gender-on-their-drivers-license/">Read More</a>

For Jude Speegle, a 29-year-old Daytona Beach transgender activist with two children, changing the gender designation on his driver’s license in April 2023 represented a milestone in his transition.

Transgender activists in Florida held die-in demonstrations at driver’s license offices across the Sunshine State in protest of a new rule to criminalize changing gender on a license to reflect a person's gender identity. Dozens of people showed up Friday morning draped in transgender flags or orange road-safe vests and laid down in lobbies and

 

Trans Floridians and allies staged a "die-in" at an Orlando Department of Motor Vehicles office Friday morning in coordination with similar actions across the state, in protest of new directives by the Florida DMV.