Comments on Advance Indiana™: Transgender Evansville Resident Feels Discriminated Against By BMV

Requiring surgery is an outdated, prehistoric prac...

2014-10-29T04:57:17.586-05:00

Requiring surgery is an outdated, prehistoric practice. Many transgender individuals live fully functional lives as the opposite gender without surgery. The cost of the surgery alone is prohibitive in many cases, as high as $24,000. Why should an individual be required to disfigure their genitals, at a cost of $24,000 to satisfy some governmental agency they are serious about gender change?

I don't see this as a violation of LGBT rights...

2013-08-24T03:02:54.482-05:00

I don't see this as a violation of LGBT rights. Based on my understanding, this is a product of vague policies that resulted to some problems with technicalities. The BMV must have a hard time figuring out what to do regarding this since this is a rare case. And it's alright to be keen about the details in order to prevent illegal activities. You can read more about vehicle registration issues in Indiana through this website: http://www.dmv.com/in/indiana/how-to/deal-registration-titling-issues

That the Indiana BMV is a partisan branch of eithe...

2013-08-22T21:43:18.225-05:00

That the Indiana BMV is a partisan branch of either party is a sham, and an embarrassment.First the BMV wasted resources to maliciously and pretty much illegally persecute a gay youth group over a stupid license plate and now this. Vindictive. I would gladly take the two-and-a-half hour wait in a Massachusetts BMV than deal with and pay fees to these moronic bullies. As a certain kind of majority constituency in Indiana,government employed social conservatives get a kick out of humiliating and making trouble for LGBT hoosiers, lacking the basic level of decency/sophistication to live and let live. It's bad enough that the standard State License plates have "In God We Trust" option that quietly makes your religious beliefs more easily deduced by anyone looking at your vehicle. Fellow motorists don't need to know what university I attended, what my beliefs are or are not, or where I make my donations -and the government should have no part in encouraging me to publicize these things. This young man and his wife need to do what is best and flee this state -not because the average Hoosier is ignorant but because this incompetent government and its lowest common denominator henchmen are hateful, indecent, and backwards. Pick on someone your own size!