Identification documents are vital keys that are essential to opening the doors to so many parts of everyday life. They allow people to start new jobs, open bank accounts, find housing, access medical care, enroll in school, travel, and participate in civic life.
Anti-LGBTQ opponents are pushing policies that target transgender people for discrimination and mistreatment when it comes to their IDs. These policies seek to ban transgender people from updating their IDs to include accurate gender markers—and, in some cases, even retroactively invalidating their existing IDs that have been updated according to state law.
Talking About ID Update Bans provides layered approaches for effective conversations that can help audiences understand why up-to-date IDs are so important for transgender people, and why banning ID updates is harmful for transgender people—and for all of us.
