VIDEO: Transgender Woman Goes Topless in a DMV Parking Lot in Protest

Andrea Jones, a transgender woman, was arrested after she took off her shirt in the parking lot of the DMV to protest their refusal to change the sex on her Driver’s License from male to female.

Apparently a statement from her surgeon reporting that she no longer had testicles was sufficient for the Social Security Administration to make the changes to her paperwork. But the Tennessee DMV needed more proof.

According to local news WATE, the police report says, “Mr. Jones continued to yell that he had the right to show his breasts in public and wanted to be recognized as a female.” Jones explained “If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt.”

You can read the full story and see the video at wate.com.

Why do we even need to include our gender on official documents? Is there any instance left where proof of gender is important?