Dori: What gender should Dori pick on his new WA driver’s license?
Aug 1, 2019, 5:13 AM
(KIRO 7)
(KIRO 7)
In a press release that I’m sure was timed for the second Democratic debate, Jay Inslee — who is still governor, despite the fact that he spends almost no time here anymore now that he’s on the campaign trail — sent out a press release that Washington is adding a third gender option for your driver’s license or ID card.
They claim they’re going to have public meetings to get public input on this, but let’s be honest, they would not have sent out a press release if this were not already a done deal.
I have to renew my driver’s license in October. I think I should put this out to the listeners. I have three choices now — which gender should I pick? I’ve always gone with male in the past. Maybe I should be a female this time around? Or I could go with “gender X,” the new option that is not exclusively male or female.
I find this very exciting. Which one do you think I should choose when I renew my license this October? Add your response in the comments.
Washington driver’s licenses to feature third gender option
In all seriousness, be whatever you want to be on your driver’s license. I really don’t care.
Here’s the one I don’t understand. On your birth certificate, if you were born a boy with male genitalia, you grew up as a boy, you played on boys sports teams, you joined a fraternity in college, you married a woman, had three kids, and now at 55 decide you identify as a woman — you can go to the Washington State Department of Health and change your birth certificate to female.
If someone wants to be the other gender today, fine, I don’t care — put that on your driver’s license. But how can you change history? How can you change an official state document from 40 or 50 years ago and decide today that you were born a different gender back then?
So that’s the exciting news from Jay Inslee’s office. Maybe that will put him over 2 percent in the polls.
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