We are disgusted and horrified that something like this can happen in a major US city. If not for any other reason, the Menace exists to protest unquestionable and dehumanizing injustices such at this:
Transgender Woman Mocked At Utah DMV, Forced To Scrub Off Makeup
Salt Lake City, Utah – Not a highlight of our state. On Thursday this week, a transgender woman entered a local DMV to renew her license only to find half the staff mocking and ridiculing her, including security forcing her to scrub off her makeup and pull her hair back before she could take her photo. (From Pride in Utah)
Here is a full description by a local resident:
Local resident Amber Anderton watched a horrifying scene play out in front of her this past Thursday at the DMV located at 1095 Motor Ave. (approx. 200 N 1000 W) in Salt Lake City, as a transgender woman sat down at the photo station to renew her license. “When the DMV worker looked at her,” says Amber, “he immediately left and got another employee, whispered in their ear and they both began laughing as they looked back at the woman. They both then went and got security who escorted the woman back to a supervisor’s office. When they came back out the woman was taken to the restroom where she had to scrub off her makeup and pull her hair back before they would let her take her license photo.”
Amber goes on to describe how the original two employees were seen walking from office to office, and several other employees came out to laugh and toss anti-transgender slurs around.
We are not here to sell t-shirts, we are not here to write clever prose. We are here to stand up against the injustices imposed upon us by society.
UPDATE:
The menace has learned that this is actually the Driver License Division of the Department of Public Safety not the DMV. The department also controls the police and fire departments.
Department of Public Safety
Driver License Division
Third Floor – South
4501 South 2700 West
Salt Lake City, Utah 84114
Administration: (801) 965-4437
http://www.publicsafety.utah.gov/dld/index.html
Brian Hyer
Public Information Officer
Utah Department of Public Safety
email: dpspiohelp@utah.gov
For media calls: 801-554-5659
Looks like they have a Facebook page. Please express your displeasure at the discrimination of a transgendered woman by staff at their Fairpark office in Salt Lake City. Be sure to tell them that the Menace sent you!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Utah-Driver-License-Division/114406373190
Are there any Menaces out there in the Salt Lake City area who are pissed off enough to show up and shout your anger at the employees who did this? If we don’t stand up for our rights and demand respect, this sort of behavior becomes the norm. Be a Menace in Utah.
UTAH DMV – FAIRPARK
1095 Motor Ave.
Salt Lake City, Utah 84116
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How to hold a Transexual Menace Protest (Old School)
We have been asked by more than one person how they can have the Menace protest injustices at a town near them so we wanted to publish simple instructions for having your own Menace protest.
- Find some injustice that really annoys you and makes you want to do something. (Here’s one example.)
- Find other people who feel the same way. (Optional, but protests are more fun with other people.)
- Pick a date and a location. (Make sure you check with local authorities about the laws governing
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