Minnesota‘s first transgender lawmaker has been accruing traffic citations under her former name despite being an outspoken critic of anyone who dared to call her that, court records revealed.
Democrat Representative Leigh Finke, 44, has shamed anyone who practices ‘deadnaming,’ or referring to a transgender or non-binary person by their birth name without consent.
In one instance, she wrote on Facebook that using a trans person’s deadname is an ‘expression of hate toward transgender people.’
In 2023, she told Fox 9, ‘It’s impossible to take seriously the idea that we are speaking out of turn at a time when our rights are being taken away; our lives are being belittled, mocked, dehumanized constantly.
‘Across the nation in state legislatures, in the capitol, now in DC, we are just hearing constant misgendering, deadnaming, humiliating language.’
Finke legally changed her name and sex in July 2020, court records viewed by the Daily Mail show.
She changed her name from Christopher Leigh Finke to Leigh Dawn Finke, and her sex from male to female.
However, court records also show that Finke has received at least three traffic tickets under her ‘deadname’ between 2023 and 2025.
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