Arkansas will no longer allow residents to use “X” instead of male or female on state-issued driver’s licenses or identification cards, officials announced under new rules Tuesday that will also make it more difficult for transgender people to change the sex listed on their licenses and IDs.

The changes announced by the Department of Finance and Administration reverse a practice that’s been in place since 2010, and removes the “X” option that had been used by nonbinary and intersex residents. The agency has asked a legislative panel to approve an emergency rule spelling out the new process.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who last year signed an executive order banning gender-neutral terms from state documents, called the move “common sense.”

“As long as I’m governor, Arkansas state government will not endorse nonsense,” Sanders said in a news release.

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    -88 months ago

    Great picture, AP. Y’all had a three-martini lunch and pissed yourselves laughing to pick that one, didn’t ya.

    Not that I wouldn’t have. But c’mon. wtf. When trump is found guilty of rape he gets a sober, serious picture. When Biden does anything not technically part of his presidential duties he gets a goofball picture. What is going on in there.

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        -38 months ago

        Yeah it was a comment about the photos of politicians accompanying articles lately. It seems like they’re deliberately picking “wacky” ones.