Forty-three percent of voting-eligible transgender people who live in states that conduct their elections primarily in person lack identity documents that correctly reflect their name or gender. That could create obstacles to voting.
More than 200,000 eligible trans voters don't have IDs that reflect their gender identities and the names they use. It could prevent them from voting.and curriculum in schools, voter identification laws in some states could create barriers at the ballot box for thousands of eligible transgender voters Tuesday.
Transgender voters may face questioning or rejection by poll workers because of IDs that don't match their identity, barring them from an important election year for LGBTQ issues, Kathryn K. O'Neill, a policy analyst at the Williams Institute who co-authored the report, told USA TODAY. Wynne Nowland, a transgender advocate, said the fear of being outed as transgender or facing discrimination when voting in person with an ID that doesn't match one's gender can be intimidating.
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