New York State to offer nonbinary gender identity marker on drivers licenses

New York State to offer nonbinary gender identity marker on drivers licenses

Customers wait in line at a Department of Motor Vehicles office in Redwood City, Calif., Thursday, June 30, 2011. All Californians with a vehicle will pay $12 more a year to register it and millions of property owners who live outside cities will pay $150 a year for state fire protection. Those are among the new fees included in the state budget passed late Tuesday night without any Republican support. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York intends to offer driver’s licenses with a nonbinary gender identity marker of “X,” but it could take more than a year before Department of Motor Vehicles computers will be able to automatically handle the option. State officials made the disclosure in papers filed in a federal lawsuit brought against them by Sander Saba, who is challenging the state policy of limiting gender identity on licenses to either “male” or “female.” Saba, a nonbinary transgender New York City resident, said in the lawsuit that the policy is discriminatory. The state recently moved to dismiss the lawsuit as moot.

 

(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)