In yesterday’s mail, I got something that marks a very important milestone in my transition journey. My first female-identified, government-issued ID card! I applied for it on the 21st of last month, as the first thing I did after going before a judge and getting my legal name and gender marker changed.
Wow, it sure is colorful and shiny! Oregon just moved to a new style of driver license, loaded with anti-tampering and anti-forgery features. In addition to the subtle coloring, they have multiple layers of holographic details in the plastic laminations. A photo doesn’t begin to do it justice, with regards to how pretty they are.
I posted this to my Facebook yesterday, and got lots of complements. Both on the milestone achievement, and on it being an amazingly nice photo of me. One friend asked my secret to getting such a nice ID photo. My reply was, “Being really happy when the picture was taken!”