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Text of the full letter available here.

They are doing this the extra cruel way on purpose. If they knew which people to send this letter to, then they could have just as easily just automatically mailed them replacement licenses. But forcing them to make arrangements to travel to a DMV, present themselves in person (to be potentially humiliated/deadnamed by the DMV employees to their faces), and to be unable to drive themselves to their work/school in the interim, are all just ways of making this process even harder. And because there’s a National Driver Register database that lists individual drivers’ status and history information, it’s not necessarily even as simple as just moving to a different state and get a new license issued there, because it will presumably show their previous license as being suspended.

Someone has been comparing this to the day in 1938 when the German government invalidated all German passports held by Jewish people, forcing them to surrender their old passports and instead have passports stamped with a “J” for Jewish on them.

For trans people, carrying an ID that misgenders them opens them to intrusive questions, harassment, and even violence.

When this world is no more

The moon is all we'll see

I'll ask you to fly away with me

Until the stars all fall down

They empty from the sky

But I don't mind

If you're with me, then everything's alright

[original]

Ruby: *adjusts outfit*

Qrow: You alright, kiddo?

Ruby: Yeah. I just got bark and dirt all over my butt sitting on that log back there.

Nora: Me too! It's so annoying...

Ruby: Right?

Jaune: What are you two talking about?

Ruby: It's a skirt problem.

Nora: Yeah, you boys wouldn't understand!

Ruby: Actually, Jaune would...

Nora: Oh, that's right. But the rest of you boys wouldn't understand.

Oscar: *pauses, suddenly far away in a memory*

Ren: No, I suppose we wouldn't.

Qrow: We should keep moving.

Oscar: *small snort of laughter*

Qrow: *turns to glare at Oscar suspiciously*

Ruby: Oscar?

Oscar: *starts laughing outright*

Jaune: What's so funny?

Qrow: *glare intensifies*

Oscar: Ha ha ha! Ha ha - BA HA HA HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHA!

Qrow: *starts moving towards Oscar*

Ren: Is he alright?

Nora: I don't get it. What's so funny?

Ruby: Oscar?

Oscar: *laughing so hard he can barely speak* Ha ha, like...LIKE WHAT YOU SEE! Hahahahahaha!

Qrow: *grabs Oscar by the back of the collar and starts dragging him away from the others*

Ruby: Uncle Qrow! What are you doing?!

Nora: What's wrong with him?

Qrow: *not turning around as he drags Oscar away* ISN'T IT OBVIOUS? HE'S A CRAZY PERSON! HE TALKS TO A VOICE IN HIS HEAD! HE'S INSANE AND YOU SHOULDN'T LISTEN TO HIM OR TRUST ANYTHING HE TELLS YOU!

Ruby, Nora, and Jaune: *speechless*

Ren: *even more speechless than usual*