Sex and Gender on the AZ Driver's License
Two Democratic lawmakers are trying to give transgender and non-binary Arizonans the chance to more accurately represent themselves on state-issued documents — in life and in death.
House Bill 2492 would offer driver's-license applicants a third gender option, "non-binary," to indicate they don't identify as male or female.
House Bill 2582 would require death certificates to reflect gender identity, one's emotional and psychological sense of gender, including when it appears to conflict with a person's anatomy.
This is what happens when you forget what the purpose of something actually is. The individual descriptive information on a driver's license is for identification purposes -- it is not a Facebook profile page to communicate our sense of self or current emotional state. One's personal, inner "emotional and psychological sense of gender" is useless on an identification document because a third party can't sense that in any way.
If the argument is that gender is not a useful identification tool, then remove it entirely from the damn license or death certificate and let's move on. Or replace it with something that is useful and discernible by a third party (how about "has external genitalia y/n" lol).
Postscript: Well, I just looked at my AZ licence and it does not use the word "gender" anywhere. It says "sex". Now, people I know who self-identify as "woke" have explained to me that "sex" is a function of biological plumbing whereas gender is more a function of state of mind and social programming and such. Well, the license says "sex" so why are we talking about gender at all?
