BayWindows.com – by Laura Kiritsy – Editor-in-chief
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) has issued a new policy to facilitate the changing of gender markers on driver’s licenses and state-issued identification cards for people who have undergone a gender transition, a move that LGBT advocates say will have a substantial impact on the daily lives of transgender people.
In a Jan. 21 letter to MassEquality Executive Director Marc Solomon notifying him of the new policy, Registrar Rachel Kaprielien called the changes “fair reasonable and sensible.” She stated that next edition of the RMV’s Driver’s Manual would reflect the amended policy.