• growsomethinggood ()@reddthat.com
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    5 days ago

    That sadly doesn’t help trans people who were born in Alabama and already left, since that’s where their birth certificate would still fall under. Or if they got their license in Alabama, they may have trouble transferring it to their current state if their documents don’t match up.

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      Some months ago, I suddenly realized my birth certificate could be problem, I was born in a red state but only lived there for less than a year as a baby before my mom moved us back to a state in New England. And of course I ended up being trans. So I looked up my birth state’s rules and just couldn’t stop crying, I even left work early that day because I was so upset by it. Fuck the right, fuck the bigots.

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      It’s incredibly state dependent on how that works. Birth certificates can be ruined by your birth state, but that’s not the only way to manage things. Since federal identification still wotks, you can get a passport instead of a drivers license/state id, it’ll do everything except let you drive. You can also get your social security card updated too. As far as I know, that’s all that’s required to get set up with new identification in a different state.