The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles released a memo Friday that changes previous rules that allowed Floridians to change their driver's license to match their gender identity.

sunshine state Before Allows transgender individuals to change licenses if they are transitioning; according to For notes. But the department said in a memo that conflating gender with sex defeats the purpose of an “identification document” and has changed its policy to only keep a person's biological sex on file. (Related: Governor Red signs bill banning men from using women's restrooms)

“Furthermore, the term “gender” in s. 322.08, FS does not refer to an individual's internal sense of gender role or identity, but rather to “sex,'' which has historically and generally been determined by innate and unchangeable biological and genetic characteristics. have been understood as synonyms,” the memo states. To read. “Allowing individuals to change their licenses to reflect an internal sense of sexual role or identity that is neither immutable nor objectively verifiable undermines the purpose of identification documents and undermines the ability of states to enforce their laws. may be hindered.”

According to the memo, under the updated policy, the department will only be able to issue new driver's licenses if the old driver's license is lost or stolen, and not if someone wants to transfer their driver's license. It disappears.

Florida Democratic Party reacted Florida Democratic Party Chairman Nikki Fried expressed outrage at the decision. saying “Florida Republican Party's Transgender Obsession Must Stop” on Tuesday.

“Instead of addressing the serious real estate insurance crisis and out-of-control rent increases, Republicans continue to pursue blatantly transphobic policies in service of a fabricated culture war,” Fried said. Ta.

The new policy is as follows: law Through the Florida Senate and House of Representatives, enacts the Department's policy legislation and new requirements for applications for “health insurance contracts, group health insurance contracts, health benefit plans, and health maintenance contracts related to gender reassignment coverage.” I plan to create one. Prescriptions and treatments, and certain mental health and treatment services. ”

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