In a January 26 Memorandum (full text), the Executive Director of the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Department has rescinded the rule allowing transgender individuals to change the gender marker on their driver's licenses. He ruled that gender reflected on one's driver's license must reflect one's sex as "determined by innate and immutable biological and genetic characteristics." The Memorandum went on to say:
[M]isrepresenting one's gender, understood as sex, on a driver license constitutes fraud ... and subjects the offender to criminal and civil penalties, including cancellation, suspension, or revocation of his or her driver license....
Newsweek reports on these developments.
