Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says state won't 'endorse nonsense' in dropping 'X' from gender options

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