[Source.](https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/31/florida-walks-back-policy-permitting-changing-id-match-gender-identity/) > The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles issued a memo Friday changing a previous rule that allowed Floridians to change their driver’s license to match their gender identity. > The Sunshine State previously allowed transgender individuals to get their license changed if they were transitioning, according to the memo. The department, however, said in the memo that conflating sex with gender defeats the purpose of and “identification record” and changed the policy to only allow a person’s biological sex to remain on file. (RELATED: Red State Gov Signs Bill Barring Men From Using Women’s Restrooms) > “Furthermore, the term ‘gender’ in s. 322.08, F.S., does not refer to a person’s internal sense of his or her gender role or identification but has historically and commonly been understood as a synonym for ‘sex,’ which is determined by innate and immutable biological and genetic characteristics,” the memo reads. “Permitting an individual to alter his or her license to reflect an internal sense of gender role or identity, which is neither immutable nor objectively verifiable, undermines the purpose of an identification record and can frustrate the state’s ability to enforce its laws.”