{"id":13229,"date":"2022-11-04T20:35:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/?p=13229"},"modified":"2022-11-04T20:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:52:28","slug":"them-how-to-vote-while-trans-guide-voter-id-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/them-how-to-vote-while-trans-guide-voter-id-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"them.: How to Vote While Trans: A Guide to Voter ID Laws, Trans Voting Rights, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0QUISPE L\u00d3PEZ<br \/>\nNovember 3, 2022<\/p>\n<p>The midterm elections\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/anti-lgbtq-candidates-to-beat-midterm-elections\">come with an added weight<\/a>\u00a0for many transgender voters this year. Local legislators have played a crucial role in orchestrating the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/anti-lgbtq-bills-2022-explained-trans-sports-laws-youth-healthcare-mandated-reporter\">wave of transphobic legislation<\/a>\u00a0currently threatening trans youth and adults across the U.S. From\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/there-are-more-laws-banning-trans-girls-in-k-12-sports-than-there-are-trans-girls-in-k-12-sports\">bills banning trans girls<\/a>\u00a0from K-12 sports to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/dont-say-gay-bill-anti-lgbtq-legislation-florida-idaho\">laws limiting access<\/a>\u00a0to life-saving care, trans rights are in danger across the country \u2014 which is why it\u2019s more crucial than ever that the trans voters have access to the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>Yet while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/publications\/trans-voter-id-impact\/\">over 870,000 trans adults<\/a>\u00a0will be eligible to vote in the 2022 midterm elections, at least 200,000 do not have identification that reflects their correct name, gender marker, or presentation, according to the Williams Institute. This could make it unnecessarily difficult or impossible to vote in some cases, according to\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/staff\/lauren-kunis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/staff\/lauren-kunis\/\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/staff\/lauren-kunis\/&quot;}\">Lauren Kunis<\/a>, the CEO and executive director of the\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/&quot;}\">voting rights nonprofit VoteRiders.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to VoteRiders,\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/staterules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/staterules\/\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/staterules\/&quot;}\">12 states have strict voter ID laws<\/a>, which require voters to prove their identity with a form of ID that matches their initial registration exactly \u2014 a potential problem if a trans voter has legally changed their name since registering to vote. Additionally,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/voting-laws-roundup-october-2021\">19 states across the U.S.<\/a>\u00a0have adopted new and often stricter voter ID laws since the 2020 election. It is perhaps no coincidence that many states that have passed anti-trans legislation also adopted stricter voter ID regulations since the last election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrans voters are at the top of the list of groups that are particularly challenged by voter ID laws in the United States,\u201d Kunis says. \u201cIt can get complicated and tricky if you\u2019re a trans voter looking to cast a vote, particularly if you\u2019re in the process of transitioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.them.us\/story\/how-to-vote-while-trans-voter-id-laws-election-hotlines-legal-rights\">Read the entire story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0QUISPE L\u00d3PEZ November 3, 2022 The midterm elections\u00a0come with an added weight\u00a0for many transgender voters this year. Local legislators have played a crucial role in orchestrating the\u00a0wave of transphobic legislation\u00a0currently threatening trans youth and adults across the U.S. From\u00a0bills banning trans girls\u00a0from K-12 sports to\u00a0laws limiting access\u00a0to life-saving care, trans rights are in danger across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[299,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trans-people-vote","category-voteriders-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>them.: How to Vote While Trans: A Guide to Voter ID Laws, Trans Voting Rights, and More &#8226; VoteRiders<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voteriders.org\/them-how-to-vote-while-trans-guide-voter-id-laws\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"them.: How to Vote While Trans: A Guide to Voter ID Laws, Trans Voting Rights, and More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BY\u00a0QUISPE L\u00d3PEZ November 3, 2022 The midterm elections\u00a0come with an added weight\u00a0for many transgender voters this year. 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