The special snowflake wants to be unique. The DMV will make you spit out a wad of chawing tobacco before taking your photo.
Via WISTV
The Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of an Anderson teen who was forced to remove makeup when getting a driver’s license picture.
The group held a press conference on Tuesday on the South Steps of the South Carolina State House in Columbia to announce the filing.
The suit, which is brought by Teresa Culpepper, mother of 16-year-old Chase Culpepper, will ask “the court to rule that denying Chase the freedom to wear his everyday makeup in his license photo constitutes sex discrimination and violates his right to free speech and expression under the United States Constitution,” according to a press release from TLDEF.
“It also seeks a ruling under the U.S. and South Carolina Constitutions that the DMV’s photo policy is unconstitutionally vague, too broad, and lets DMV employees arbitrarily decide how a driver’s license applicant should look, without regard for the rights of the people they are supposed to serve,” the release stated.
In June, Chase Culpepper said he was told he needed to look more like a boy before he could receive his new license at the DMV.
He said he was only dressed the way he does every day to school and to his job at McDonald’s. He doesn’t think he violated any rules and now he wants the DMV to let him re-take his license picture, wearing makeup.