Transgender woman files privacy claim against California Department of Motor Vehicles

[Kadie]

Transgender woman files privacy claim against DMV
By LISA LEFF, Associated Press

Thursday, December 9, 2010

(12-09) 14:02 PST San Francisco, CA (AP) --

A transgender woman says a California Department of Motor Vehicles clerk used a state database to mail her a personal letter at home condemning her sex change.

San Francisco resident Amber Yust says she received the letter four days after she went to apply for a new driver's license in October. The letter called her gender change "a very evil decision" and identifies the writer as the person who processed Yust's application.

Yust has taken the first step toward suing the DMV for invading her privacy and violating her civil rights. She filed a claim Wednesday seeking damages.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/09/state/n140210S64.DTL#ixzz17f0N9lfx

[davidinalameda]

1. I thought she had already filed her claim

someone at the DMV is going to get fired

[Initech]

2. The fundies are deranged, sad people.