Can't put my correct gender on a passport like I can a real ID. And I need to be able to fly since it's the only feasible long distance transportation in this country. So, I need to keep mine.

What country are you even talking about? How on Earth can you burst in and shout a mysterious country's laws without context?

We're not your flatmates

I didn't want one, but I was just given one the last time I went to get a DL.

It's kind of bizarre that the US doesn't have a national ID for internal everyday use, and people are just expected to have and use their driver's license for ID purposes.

The DHS cannot enforce anything if the majority of Americans refuse to get real ids.

That ship has sailed. Some states have been issuing them since 2012. Multiple political leaders from both sides opposed it: both Clintons, Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, Obama. And advocacy groups on both sides opposed it: guns rights activist to immigrant rights activists to domestic violence aid groups. Too little, too late to swim against the post-9/11 security theater that George W Bush used to speedrun introducing so many bad things.

And the "what ifs" you presented are far from the worst they can do with it

This is entirely irrelevant to any member of this community that is not a US citizen.

I would appreciate if you could post things like this in a regional community to avoid generating useless noise for everyone else.

I have been waiting over a year to get a passport. They're so backed up that they literally just send you your documents back and ask you to reapply in a given amount of time. It's also more expensive to get a passport than it is to get a driver's license or "real ID" and you may not have the option to just not have one if you work somewhere that requires it (like an airport).

If your concern is that they might change the rules about being allowed to use Real ID for voting (or that having a Real ID would be a requirement for voting, excluding non-Real ID licenses or state ID's because the government could potentially invalidate the ID you do have, I'm going to point out that in this time where ICE is literally stealing people off the street regardless of their legal status in the country and deporting them, what you're suggesting doesn't make sense especially with the higher bar of entry for a passport, and the fact that some states do not any longer provide any other option besides passport or REAL ID.

Something to note: In Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Wyoming, you can only get a Real ID. If you live in one of these states, please contact your state senator, representative, and governor to express your concerns and demand a state id.

Also, everyone should contact their members of congress and the president, and demand that the real id act be repealed.