"It is unfair and unnecessary to require that transgender people undergo prohibitively expensive and drastic surgery in order to have accurate identity documents."
--ACLU of Alaska Executive Director Jeffrey Mittman, on a policy of the Alaska Department of Motor Vehicles requiring surgery prior to changing the sex marker on Alaska driver licenses.







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