MA RMV Updates Policy for Changing Gender Markers
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has revised its policy on changing gender markers on Massachusetts drivers’ licenses to more accurately reflect the experience of transition for transgender people.
Now, instead of having to submit medical proof of sex reassignment surgery as well as an amended birth certificate, transgender people will be able to change their gender designation by submitting a Gender Designation Change Form signed by a medical provider, “attesting to the gender that individual considers him or herself to be.”
Inaccurate identity documents have increasingly put transgender people at risk, and this policy change alleviates one difficulty many transgender people have faced. GLAD has been working on this issue in Massachusetts for several years with our partners at MassEquality, the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition, and many members of the transgender community. We applaud this positive change by the RMV.
RMV letter announcing the policy change
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