{"id":453859,"date":"2022-05-27T22:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-york-state-dmv-issues-first-drivers-licenses-with-an-x-for-gender\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:05:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T13:05:26","slug":"new-york-state-dmv-issues-first-drivers-licenses-with-an-x-for-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-state-dmv-issues-first-drivers-licenses-with-an-x-for-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York State DMV issues first driver’s licenses with an ‘X’ for gender"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gov. Kathy Hochul today announced that New Yorkers will have the option to choose “X” as a gender marker on their driver license, learner permit, or non-driver ID card. – NYS DMV\/Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New York state Department of Motor Vehicles<\/a> issued its first gender neutral driver\u2019s licenses Friday that allow people to mark \u201cX\u201d rather than male or female under a new state law that officially takes effect June 24.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery person, regardless of their gender identity or expression, deserves to have an identity document that reflects who they are,\u201d Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a press release.<\/p>\n

State lawmakers overwhelmingly\u00a0approved the Gender Recognition Act<\/a>\u00a0last year allowing the \u201cX\u201d option on driver\u2019s licenses, learner\u2019s permits and non-driver ID cards.<\/p>\n

A Friday\u00a0Tweet<\/a>\u00a0by the DMV highlighted the people receiving the first batch of X-marked IDs.<\/p>\n

The new law will also remove the requirement that people post notification in news<\/a>papers about court petitions to change their names.<\/p>\n

Advocates say that part of the new law will allow them to avoid discrimination and harassment by keeping personal details like their previous names, birthplace, address out of the public eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really great gift to the community for Pride [month],\u201d state Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan), who sponsored the bill along with Assembly Member Danny O\u2019Donnell (D-Manhattan).<\/p>\n

State lawmakers overwhelmingly app<\/a>roved the Gender Recognition Act last year allowing the \u201cX\u201d option on driver\u2019s licenses, learner\u2019s permits and non-driver ID cards.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A potential solution for such issues could include more training for police and other public employees \u2013 or simply removing gender from driver\u2019s licenses all together.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other states like Pennsylvania and Oregon already allow an \u201cX\u201d option on driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s my sincere hope that, as we move ahead, other transgender and non-binary New Yorkers will be able to live their lives with the respect and dignity they deserve in every facet of their lives, aided by accurate state-issued identification,\u201d Sander Saba, a non-binary person who\u00a0filed a 2020 lawsuit on the matter, said in the press release.<\/p>\n

Emilia Decaudin, a transgender activist and Democratic district leader in Queens, said she welcomes the new law while worrying about how \u201cX\u201d could make people vulnerable to discirmination because their ID would effectively mark them as trans or non-binary.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery person, regardless of their gender identity or expression, deserves to have an identity document that reflects who they are,\u201d Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a press release. Hans Pennink for NY Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A potential solution for such issues could include more training for police and other public employees \u2013 or simply removing gender from driver\u2019s licenses all together, according to Decaudin.<\/p>\n

Driver\u2019s licenses currently include sex, height, eye color, address, date of birth and a photo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt does it raise the question about why we need gender on gov IDs at all?\u201d Decaudin said of the new law.<\/p>\n

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The New York state Department of Motor Vehicles issued its first gender neutral driver\u2019s licenses Friday that allow people to mark \u201cX\u201d rather than male or female under a new state law that officially takes effect June 24. \u201cEvery person, regardless of their gender identity or expression, deserves to have an identity document that reflects…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":453860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/ny-drivers-license-gender-free-2.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"#New York State DMV issues first driver’s licenses with an ‘X’ for gender","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[129681,56253,98806,23261,110475,70291],"class_list":["post-453859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5-27-22","tag-gender","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtqia","tag-transgender-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}