Suck it up, buttercups and live with your decision.
Via BPR:
A University of California, Los Angeles research institute has issued a report suggesting that voter ID laws discriminate against transgender voters.
The report released by the Williams Institute—a research institute at the UCLA School of Law that focuses largely on the LGBT community and “the impact of law and policy on their health and well-being”—identifies eight states with “strict voter ID laws” that could potentially disenfranchise people whose government-issued identification does not accurately reflect their chosen gender.
The institute asserts that voter ID laws could prevent at least 78,000 transgender individuals from voting in the 2018 elections because “transgender people who have transitioned often face substantial challenges to obtaining accurate identification” that “accurately reflects their gender.”
The authors of the report contend that the process of obtaining an accurate ID after gender transition “can be difficult and expensive,” and therefore “strict” voter ID laws—or “laws that require voters provide a government-issued photo ID, such as a driver’s license, U.S. passport or military ID, in order to vote at the polls”—cause transgender individuals to “face barriers to voting and possible disenfranchisement.”
A corresponding press release notes that the difficulty is compounded for transgender people of color, young adults, students, people with low incomes, and people with disabilities, saying such individuals are likely “overrepresented” among those who may face barriers to voting in November.
“In order for these 78,000 voting-eligible transgender people to obtain the updated IDs required to vote in the November 2018 general election, they must comply with official requirements for updating their state-issued or federally-issued IDs,” the report explains. “These requirements vary widely by state and by federal agency and can be difficult and costly to meet. Voter ID laws, therefore, create a unique barrier to voting for a substantial number of transgender people.”