(Calif.) DMV investigates note sent to transgender woman

[Newsjock]

Source: KGO-TV

A hate-filled letter sent to a San Francisco transgender woman has prompted an investigation at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The anti-gay letter claims to have been written by a DMV clerk who assisted the woman at the San Francisco branch last week.

The usually painful experience at the DMV became a traumatic one last week for Amber Yust. A transgender woman, Yust went to the San Francisco branch to legally change her name on her driver's license.

A few days later a letter was mailed to her house. The writer claims to be the DMV clerk who helped her and then went on to say being transgender is "evil." He urged her not to go through with the transition from man to woman. He said Yust is going to hell.

"Understandably, I think, she was scared to get a letter sent to her home from a state employee who presumably found out her address through his official capacity as a state employee and it was an incredibly harassing and traumatizing experience for her," Kristina Wertz, legal director of the Transgender Law Center, said.

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=7752566

[DearAbby]

1. The audacity to do this is astounding

and they are becoming more bold everyday.

[happygoluckytoyou]

2. i am floored... i am stunned... i am in awe... I DIDN'T KNOW ANYONE AT THE DMV COULD MOVE THAT FAST

[tomm2thumbs]

3. *laughing* /nt

[dogknob]

9. They must have been on their lunch break n/t

[xchrom]

4. Recommend

[Ian David]

5. What's next? Orthodox Jews & 7th Day Adventists harassing Christians for driving on The Sabbath? n/t

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[Evasporque]

7. I grow weary of people who have such limited capacity to reason...

Another example of messed up religious indoctrination.

[dogknob]

8. Not as odd as you might think for SF

I met my now ex-girlfriend, who is transgender, when I lived in San Francisco. I got to watch her get treated like an untouchable in that allegedly tolerant city. I got to watch the HRC remove all of the language including transgender people from their proposed legislation.

We no longer live in SF and we are also no longer together. At least once a day I consider the idea that someone could hurt her or kill her and get away with it. The effect is always the same; I get nauseous. Living in a world where legions of hate-filled people are running around carrying out that hatred is a day-to-day chore.

DID YOU HEAR ME HATERS???? THE IDEA THAT YOU AND I BOTH CALL OURSELVES HUMAN BEINGS MAKES ME ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY SICK!