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KarenPayne

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State id and state driver licence  

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  1. 1. If your stated allowed you to choose your gender marker no questions asked what would you do?

    • I would select the gender that I identify with regardless of my born gender
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    • I will wait until after physical surgery
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    • Undecided
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I have created this poll after hearing a discussion on another forum. 

There are many considerations e.g. you are born male but identify as female and want surgery, you were born male but identify as female but don't want surgery. Reverse this for female to male.

Then of course there are binary and non-binary.

Consider you are male, get F on your state id and commit a crime, go to jail but since you have male genitals you are placed in a male prison and the inmates know about your gender issues. Consider you are female and for the same reasons are placed in a male prison. Both cases there are high probability of ongoing sexual abuse.

With that one simple case listed above, would you still change your gender marker?    

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Chrissy

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I did change my gender marker pre-surgery on everything except my birth certificate (NJ requires bottom surgery before you can change that, but that should change next year when we lose our current pathetic governor). 

Another consideration for a lot of people is access to surgery, not everyone has the resources to get them done. 

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KarenPayne

KarenPayne

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I did change my gender marker pre-surgery on everything except my birth certificate (NJ requires bottom surgery before you can change that, but that should change next year when we lose our current pathetic governor). 

Another consideration for a lot of people is access to surgery, not everyone has the resources to get them done. 

​In regards to not having access to surgery, point in fact, in Oregon you can use F for a male who identifies as female and M for a female who identifies as male. This is really the reason for the question (and may not have been clear about that). If a female who identifies as male uses M for their gender marker and is in a prison which places them in with men that is not a good situation or must be pat down at an airport etc.

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