Amber Yust, the 23-year-old Software Engineer who received a threatening letter from a DMV employee after recording her sex change with the government agency, will recieve a $55,000 settlement the Chronicle reports today. That settlement includes $15,000 from Thomas Demartini, the DMV clerk who sent the letter calling homosexuality "an abomination that leads to hell".

Yust's lawsuit alleged that Demartini illegally used information in DMV records to harass her based on her personal beliefs. Demartini, who didn't object to processing Yust's application while she was in the Fell Street DMV office, was suspended with pay shortly after sending the letter directing Yust to the fundamentalist website vaticancatholic.com (which redirects to Most Holy Family Monastery). Yust also received a DVD entitled "Death and the Journey Into Hell" from the church claiming anyone "possessed by demons" of homosexuality would be burning in hell. Demartini left his job back in December of last year and is also accused of refusing to process a second transgender woman's application back in 2009.

The remaining $40,000 of the settlement will be paid out by the state for violating Yust's right to privacy and disclosing her personal information.

Just imagine if this had been recorded on tape for that upcoming DMV Reality Show. Demartini could have easily replaced Puck as the target of our hate-watching rage.

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