The Trump administration now claims that signs of being transgender may include: renewing your passport early for any reason—even marriage—forgetting to fill out part of the form, and changing names.

But now, after nearly 20 months of secrecy, the State Department has finally declassified its full guidelines for ‘adjudicating’ sex markers on passports, and unfortunately, it’s even worse than was previously believed. The policy in question, which is codified as Section 403.3 of Volume 8 of the Foreign Affairs Manual and is simply titled ‘Sex Markers,’ is divided into four subsections: Summary, Procedures, Eligibility for a Fully Valid Passport or Passport Card, and Indicators of a Prior Change to Sex Marker.

  • mika june [she|her]@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    271·
    16 hours ago

    so much time, money, and energy is devoted to upholding traditional hierarchies like gender essentialism.

    i’m proud to be trans. fuck these rigid ideologies. they will inevitably crack, break, and crumble.