Arkansas will no longer allow residents to use “X” instead of male or female on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards, officials announced under new rules Tuesday that will also make it more difficult for transgender people to change the sex listed on their licenses and IDs.
The changes announced by the Department of Finance and Administration reverse a practice that’s been in place since 2010, and removes the “X” option that had been used by nonbinary and intersex residents. The agency has asked a legislative panel to approve an emergency rule spelling out the new process.
Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who last year signed an executive order banning gender-neutral terms from state documents, called the move “common sense.”
“As long as I’m governor, Arkansas state government will not endorse nonsense,” Sanders said in a news release.
Because Republicans have no other course of action other than to become more authoritarian and anit democracy as time goes on. It’s mathematically impossible for them to ever win the popular vote and the electoral college is slipping as a possibility as well. So that only leaves political violence and actual violence as an option. It’s not Biden’s fault outside of not being left leaning enough. Conservatism is a death cult, meeting them half way in anything is a fools errand.