Transgender woman says DMV clerk warned of hell

Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, December 10, 2010


(12-09) 18:34 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- A few days after Amber Yust visited the Department of Motor Vehicles in San Francisco to register her sex change from male to female, she got a letter at home from the DMV employee who had handled her application.

Homosexual acts, he informed her, were "an abomination that leads to hell."

The same day, Yust said, a DVD arrived from a fundamentalist church warning of eternal damnation for anyone "possessed by demons" of homosexuality. The DMV employee's letter had referred her to the church's website as a source of "critical information for your salvation."

What's more, the DMV had kept the employee on in 2009 even after he refused to process another transgender woman's name-change application, Yust said in a damage claim filed with the state, the precursor to a lawsuit.



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I hope she reported all of this to the DMV and to the police, for that matter.

this bigoted asshat has no right to be spewing his hatred on company time. He is a state employee and obliged to serve all--without spewing his bigoted Xitan fundie crap in the process.