QUIRKY WORLD... Oh boy: No makeup in driving licence picture

USA: The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles says a boy who dresses as a girl may not have his driver’s licence photo retaken wearing makeup.

A New York group known as the Transgender Legal Defence & Education Fund wrote to the DMV last week requesting that 16-year-old Chase Culpepper be allowed to have a new photo dressed as he normally does. The organisation said the youth regularly wears makeup and androgynous or girls’ clothing.

In March, Culpepper was told at the DMV office in Anderson he could not have his photo taken with women’s makeup and the defence fund says that violates his free speech rights.