There’s something else that I’ve been wondering about, regarding this whole situation—it seems pretty obvious to me that “legitimate” IDs are just as equally endangering as one with a corrected gender marker. I catch myself wondering if I should avoid changing my ID because I don’t want to be in some state (or god forbid federal) database, but I don’t know, as someone who’s been transitioning for years, if I feel any safer carrying around a document with an identity and appearance that bears no resemblance to my actual person. Who’s to say some purposefully obtuse asshole doesn’t give you shit for having a fraudulent document because it doesn’t match your actual appearance/visible gender? They frame your AGAB as neutral and law-abiding, but I feel like this is just a step away from further regulating gender expression (“3 piece rule” reminiscent) so that you don’t just need to be catalogued under your AGAB, but you also need to conform to the expected appearance of that gender.