Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) has defended a recent revision made on the state issuing driver’s licenses and IDs, describing it as “common sense.”
The revision, announced by the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration on Tuesday, prevents the DFA from allowing license holders to change their gender without any verifiable information or to use the symbol “X” in place of their gender. Additionally, the only two genders that can be displayed on state IDs are “male” or “female,” with one of these being issued on IDs as indicated by a person’s original or amended birth certificate.b
“This policy is just common sense,” Sanders said. “Only women give birth, men shouldn’t play women’s sports, and there are only two genders. As long as I’m Governor, Arkansas state government will not endorse nonsense.”
For those who currently have a license or ID that identifies them with a gender other than “male” or “female,” these licenses will still be valid until they reach their expiration date. Once these licenses are renewed, however, they will have to adhere to DFA’s new revision.
DFA Secretary Jim Hudson has also spoken in favor of this revision, calling it an approach to issue IDs “based on objective, verifiable information.”
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The move by Arkansas follows Florida’s announcement that transgender residents would no longer be allowed to change their gender on their driver’s licenses. The memo from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles stated that “misrepresenting one’s gender, understood as sex, on a driver’s license constitutes fraud.”
Last year, Sanders signed an order that would ban “ridiculous words” aimed to “erase women and girls.” These words included phrases like “pregnant people,” “laboring person,” and “birth giver.”
