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Yeah I found the story, but this is not true: > I could be arrested in Florida because my driver's license says I'm female A true statement would be > Florid
by IshKebab 2y ago
Yeah I found the story, but this is not true:
> I could be arrested in Florida because my driver's license says I'm female
A true statement would be
> Florida now requires the gender on newly issued licenses to be your biological sex.
I'm making no judgement on whether or not that is a good idea (I honestly have no idea), but I do care about the truth (and we're in a thread about the importance of fact checking!) so I feel like it's important to point out misinformation.
- DoctorOW 2y agoI'm not sure what source you found the story on but you missed a really key line of the original document "Furthermore, misrepresenting one's gender, understood as sex, on a driver license constitutes fraud under s. 322,212, F.S., and subjects an offender to criminal and civil penalties" which reasonably backs up the claim. Also I am going to claim it IS a bad idea. The Florida law intentionally redefines biological sex to not include any phenotypical traits (i.e. what a biologist would use to determine sex) and instead goes by birth certificate as it was filled out at birth. I'm also just generally a proponent of free speech and free thought and dislike the idea of government defining your identity for you.