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Infuriated on behalf of my coworker - US push to disenfranchise women (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by RBWells@lemmy.world to c/actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
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My coworker went to renew her driver's license.

They sent her back, said she needed a birth certificate because she didn't have the star on it yet. She's old and from some small town up north so this took 6 months plus another to get another DMV appointment.

She went back yesterday and they said no, you also need the marriage certificate from your first marriage, the divorce documentation, the marriage certificate from your second marriage and the divorce documentation from that too.

So now her license is expired, and she can't renew it until some tiny vital statistics department far from here responds to her with paper copies of all those items.

I am wildly infuriated.

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Not if you have a passport, I just used my passport. But if you don't, and your birth certificate doesn't have your current last name (common for women) they require a paper trail from birth to current name.

It's a limited time problem, I guess women can just keep their names like guys do, but it's a big fleet to change, all the existing older married women, and also anyone who legally changed their name for any reason and used an ID from a different state to get their ID here.

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