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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/transgender-woman-forced-to-remove-makeup-for-drivers-license-photo-i-was-sobbing-190335370.html

And 7 years after transitioning they never filed the paperwork to be legally recognized by the state or anyone else. Yet its an issue for the DMV? I support LGTGQ rights but where do we draw a line at on some of this stupidity? Isn't face altering makeup not supposed to be allowed anyway when you get your photo taken? Before i had surgery I had to take my glasses off and make sure no hair was in front of my face.

A quote from someone who read this article sums it up nicely, I believe.

"So if I just say, and believe, that I'm 65, I should be able to retire and collect social security benefits starting tomorrow? I don't feel my biological age, I feel older.... If a biologically 15 year old person claims and believes they are 21, a bar should serve them alcohol? If a woman has a child and claims maternity leave, uses it, returns to work and claims they are a man, can he now then claim paternity leave too? If my will says that my first daughter is to receive my estate, and my son, who is 1 year younger than my daughter, decides that he is in fact a she, is he now my first daughter? I'm all for equality, but there are some serious issues with this chain of logic that you get to claim whatever you feel like for biologically ground facts."