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Name: Chelsea on Jun 14, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Kelli Busey on Jun 14, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Chelsea Roselyn Hopper on Jun 14, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 14, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Lorraine Lee on Jun 14, 2011Comments: The current policy literally pushes people to the margins of society, and cannot be construed as having any other intent.Flag
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Name: Chelay Baptiste on Jun 15, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Ceira Smith on Jun 29, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: David Castle on Jun 30, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: David Castle on Jun 30, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Ceira on Jul 19, 2011Comments:Flag
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Name: Kaitlyn Hoyt on Jul 21, 2011Comments: This policy only hurts people and ruins the NH economy. You can not have a policy forcing you to get surgery to have your ID correct to be able to use to identify you. Especially when this surgery is $20,000+ and not a single government agency or insurance in the US will cover it. By giving an incorrect ID, you make it that much harder to get a job to make the money to get the surgery to get the ID. If the surgery is forced, they should be allowed financial assistance, not put people in a never ending cycle of depression, lack of medical care, legal standing and poverty. Imagine being a woman and having to explain your genital situation that you can't afford to fix to complete strangers. Imagine the danger involved with showing such an ID to the random people that require ID. Imagine being constantly called the opposite sex. Imagine going to a job interview as a woman who may have excessive masculinization and no money to fix it. Imagine not having any masculinization and having to explain your genitals to the hiring manage as to why the inconsistency. Add an ID that says male and no hiring manager would even take them seriously. After all even the government doesn't. There are no bathrooms that require identification to get in. They don't check your ID in women's areas, they only go by what you obviously are. The only time the sex designation matters is for marriage purposes. Since NH has gay marriage even that makes little difference. What is the point of forcing an obvious lesbian couple to get a straight marriage because one of them can't fix her ID? If the gender marker isn't used for practical purposes, then it must be used for identification, such as the markers for height, eye color, etc. A person who has lived most of her life, even since their teens as female, and has natural D cup breasts, etc is still forced to have male on her ID. Since it doesn't match her gender identity or how people see her it is incorrect for identification purposes. If police say they are looking for a male, when the person looks and is a female, they could over look her even talking to her. An MTF on hormones for years, can't ejaculate or function as a male, which is the last thing they would ever want to do anyways. So they will not be fathering any children. If the concern is that the person in question isn't actually of female identity and is doing it to commit a crime, or fraud, or is maybe even just a mentally ill deviant, it is pretty easy to tell the difference. Since you can't go by looks and personality, you can have a policy like Massachusetts. They require any person wishing to correct their sex on their ID to sign under penalty of law that it is their correct gender and they can press criminal charges if it's for any other reason. I think that happy, non suicidal people with consistent gender markers that contribute to society is much better than suicides, people on welfare and constant legal headaches of gender not consistently matching appearence or other agencies and so on. The US government has also taken a policy for passports that the gender marker is for identifying the person, and should match their gender identity and presentation. This makes for much stronger security. Their requirement is a letter from a doctor confirming treatment for the medical disorder and demonstrating their gender identity. If someone has a federal ID stating female, that matches them, and a state ID saying male that doesn't, which is accepted? Can the person pick and choose their gender at any time they want because the agencies can't agree on their sex? It creates a huge security loophole to have inconsistent and in reality incorrect identification. You don't even have to agree that the person is the sex they look like and identify as, just admit it makes good security and economic sense. Many people don't realize it is a medical condition and don't take the time to learn about causes and treatment successes and failures before passing judgement. I hope that when creating policy you take the time to think about all this for the betterment of this state.Flag
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Name: Gerald Kuntz on Jan 17, 2012Comments: Please apply a less strict policy regarding gender marker changes on NH licenses. Relegating transgendered persons to being forced to be known as one gender while presenting as another is jarring, difficult, frightening and unnecessary. Trying to fulfill a difficult and expensive task list to change one's gender is obstacle enough with out having to be forced out every time one need show their ID until such a time as they can finally meet the last criteria.Flag
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Name: August Branch on Mar 28, 2012Comments:Flag
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Name: Jillian Davis on Apr 25, 2012Comments:Flag