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Ohio BMV stops accepting gender-marker change form

Ohio’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles has stopped accepting a form used to update the sex marker on driver’s licenses and state ID cards, citing recently enacted language in state law.

Published Aug 19, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT | LehighValleyLive

The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles has stopped accepting a form that transgender Ohioans have historically used to update the sex marker on driver’s licenses and state identification cards, a policy shift that state officials say is tied to language recently enacted in Ohio law.