The pro-illegal immigration crowd is trying to get Oakland, Calif., to join San Francisco and New Haven in issuing ID cards to illegal aliens. This despite the fact that the whole idea of a “chilling effect” on reporting crime is bunk, as we found in our study of gangs and immigration law done for the Justice Department.

But it’s not just for illegals!:

“Another important group is transgender people, who may not look like the gender they identify with and don’t want to list themselves as just ‘male’ or ‘female’ on an ID card,” said Maria Dominguez of the Oakland City ID Card Coalition. The cards will not require their holders to list a binary gender choice and so will also empower members of transgender and transsexual communities, she said.