Advocates for transgender Hoosiers are keeping up their fight against plans by the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles to stop allowing gender changes on driver’s licenses.

They oppose a BMV regulation revision first proposed in June to prohibit gender marker changes that have been allowed since 2009. The BMV’s proposal followed an executive order issued by Gov. Mike Braun in March prohibiting what he called “modern gender ideology” by state agencies.

Leaders of the advocacy organizations Indiana Youth Group and GenderNexus on Thursday criticized the BMV for reintroducing the rule change after dozens of people spoke against it during a July public hearing.

The BMV later withdrew that proposal but refiled an identical one Oct. 15, setting up a new public comment period ahead of its po

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