PA no longer requires SRS for Driver's License Changes

[eredien]

Yay. PA no longer requires transsexual people to get SRS before changing the gender designation on their drivers' licenses.
I am actually a little suprised this happened in PA, as its politics are sometimes contentious, with Philadelphia itself being a little contentious and Philadelphia vs. the Rest of PA also being differently contentious. But they did the right thing!

Thanks to rm.

Comments

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[navrins]

Hm. I wonder what the purpose of a gender designation on a license is.

If it's to help identify the person, then clearly it should be what the person LOOKS like... although, even there, surely the photo does a better job.

I'm actually not sure what other purpose it could have.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Yeah, PA is a strange mix of liberal and conservative, so unexpected things happen. It looks like this was an executive rather than legislative decision, which probably made it easier. Now if SEPTA would just stop requiring the stupid gender stickers on transit passes... (this will actually help with that for some people who've had problems from them, but not all).

[ab3nd.livejournal.com]

On transit passes? Is someone using someone else's pass really enough of an issue to bother having any identifying information on it at all?

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm sure it happens. I don't know how much, given that cases where two people might want to share a pass involve them never or rarely traveling at the same time. Really though, it would be much simpler to just put the cost of any sharing into the price of a pass, which is presumably what New York and Boston do, since they don't make any effort to link them to individuals.

[eredien]

Septa thinks so, but Septa also thinks that paying $50 for a four-hour round trip from Bryn Mawr to North Kensington and back is reasonable.

(I didn't realize at the time why my professor was making me spend all that time and about a month's worth of my budget to get to North Kensington for a class project, but I realized why later. Thanks, professor, for opening my eyes to the problems of living in an area which is historically underserved by public transport because the people who live there are poor and brown!)