You’ve got to love a happy ending. After insulting Ron DeSantis and celebrating a loophole in state law, a transgender activist got a thank you letter from the state of Florida.
The Gateway Pundit reported,
In a self-congratulatory TikTok post, transgender activist James Rose recently boasted about exploiting a “loophole” to change the sex listed on his Florida driver’s license to female, despite state legislation that explicitly prohibits such alterations.
Rose’s celebratory moment, however, was short-lived as Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) swiftly corrected the error and issued a replacement license identifying Rose as male.
In January 2024, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) implemented a policy prohibiting transgender residents from updating the gender marker on their driver’s licenses to reflect their gender identity.
On December 20, 2024, James Rose, a biological male who identifies as female, posted a video claiming to have successfully bypassed Florida’s strict regulations. The activist gleefully announced that his driver’s license now displayed “female” as the sex marker.
In a TikTok captioned “BIG WIN FOR THE DOLLS, BIG LOSS FOR RHONDA,” Rose mocked Governor Ron DeSantis and his administration.
Rose explained that the loophole allowed him to bypass state requirements by replacing a lost driver’s license instead of renewing it. By presenting a passport that listed his gender as female—a document that permits self-identification under Biden’s federal rules—Rose claimed to have forced the state DMV to follow suit.
After the video gained traction, the incident caught the attention of Florida officials.
On January 6, 2025, the FLHSMV issued an official letter to Rose, invalidating the altered license and reinstating the original designation of male.
As it turns out, if you think that you have pulled a fast one on the state and wiggled your way around the law it is best not to brag about it on social media. Now this loophole has been closed for anyone else who may have wanted to do the same thing. Again I say, you have to love a happy ending. Ensuring that state identification accurately reflects the biology of an individual is crucial for public safety and collective delusion will not change that.
