Arli Christian, a senior policy counsel for the ACLU, said that their organization is working to understand what Florida’s policy will mean in practice. Although the agency cannot amend state law, it can refuse to issue a license if an applicant has committed fraud — and now, “misrepresenting one’s gender” would count as fraud.
Arli and the article only use “may” and “could” because we have no instances of it in practice yet and they can’t directly assert the policy’s intention as hastily. But it is simple: If you don’t add your biological sex, they can count it as fraud and subsequently refuse to update your documents. We’re all commenting on it because it’s so simple and obvious. It’s Florida. We know what they’re doing.
The ACLU: This is complicated
You: It’s simple.
Arli and the article only use “may” and “could” because we have no instances of it in practice yet and they can’t directly assert the policy’s intention as hastily. But it is simple: If you don’t add your biological sex, they can count it as fraud and subsequently refuse to update your documents. We’re all commenting on it because it’s so simple and obvious. It’s Florida. We know what they’re doing.
Dunno how x or xxy people gonna follow the law, since Florida doesn’t define sex in state law.
Obviously some rando on the internet knows better than a nonprofit dealing with these types of issues daily.