SAN FRANCISCO — A transgender woman on Thursday filed a claim against the California Department of Motor Vehicles, saying the clerk who handled her application for a new driver’s license sent her a letter at home calling her gender change a “very evil decision” that would condemn her to hell.
Amber Yust, 23, said the clerk at the department’s San Francisco office processed her application for a license with her female name in October.
She received the letter addressed to her old name, David, four days later. It identified the writer as the person who processed Yust’s application.
“Although I helped you with the name change, I have to say I do not support the reason for it,” says the letter. “I also do not believe the state’s recognition of it — through official documents — makes it legitimate or any less evil.”
Yust said she also received a pamphlet from a conservative Catholic ministry based in New York state to whom she thinks the DMV clerk furnished her home address.
