The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles will stop allowing gender?marker changes on driver’s licenses and state IDs starting tomorrow. The agency says the move is required under a 2025 executive order from Governor Mike Braun, which directs state agencies to define sex and gender as the same and fixed at birth.

For the past decade, Hoosiers could update their gender designation with a court order or a physician’s statement. Those documents will no longer be accepted. The BMV also cites a 2024 Indiana Court of Appeals ruling that defined gender in state motor?vehicle law strictly as biological sex.

The change has sparked backlash and ongoing legal challenges. The ACLU of Indiana has filed a class?action lawsuit, arguing the policy discriminates against transgender residents. LGBTQ+ advocates say mismatched IDs can increase risks of harassment and violence.

Indiana briefly offered a nonbinary “X” option in 2019, but with the new rule, the state is returning to a strictly binary system for all credentials.