{"id":31948,"date":"2015-07-10T18:58:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T22:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=31948"},"modified":"2015-07-10T18:58:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T22:58:27","slug":"transgender-west-virginians-now-get-drivers-licenses-w-photos-reflecting-true-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=31948","title":{"rendered":"Transgender West Virginians Now Get Driver\u2019s Licenses w\/ Photos Reflecting True Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?attachment_id=31949\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31949\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-31949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trudy-kitzmiller-560x315.jpg\" alt=\"trudy kitzmiller\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trudy-kitzmiller-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/trudy-kitzmiller.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Transgender Legal Defense &amp; Education Fund\u00a0celebrates news that the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles has changed its license photo policy to allow transgender individuals to be photographed as they regularly appear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The DMV&#8217;s new policy comes in response to TLDEF\u2019s threat of litigation on behalf of a group of transgender women who were told by the DMV that they would not receive driver\u2019s licenses unless they changed their regular appearance to try to look male in their license photos.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Trudy Kitzmiller (pictured above) and Kristen Skinner attempted to update their driver\u2019s licenses to reflect their new legal names and appearances at separate DMV offices in West Virginia. They were met with hostility and harassment by DMV officials who insisted that they remove their makeup, jewelry and other items in order to try to look male in their license photos. Both women were called \u201cit\u201d by DMV staff. The DMV\u2019s existing license photo policy prohibited license applicants from \u201cmisrepresenting gender.\u201d (See full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transgenderlegal.org\/headline_show.php?id=709\">transgenderlegal.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender Legal Defense &amp; Education Fund\u00a0celebrates news that the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles has changed its license photo policy to allow transgender individuals to be photographed as they regularly appear.<br \/>\nThe DMV&#8217;s new policy comes in response to TLDEF\u2019s threat of litigation on behalf of a group of transgender women who were told by [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[5085,5083,5084,5086],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31950,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31948\/revisions\/31950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}