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Melissa GFYI. if you are a trans person without a passport in your correct gender, seems like US Passport Office is turning around expedited passport requests in less than two weeks right now. Get that passport if you can. I can't understate the value of official government ID in your correct gender.
Sarah Sammis@melissagreen Just ordered a new one, expedited for my oldest daughter to get correct name and gender marker.
Mystery Babylon 
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Also, once again, if the passport fee is out of reach -- PLEASE make a #MutualAid post on here! I will boost & contribute what I can!
Now is the time.
amd@melissagreen If you are in a major city with a passport office and have even a refundable ticket to a foreign country in the next 2 weeks, I have gotten passports expedited in 48 hours.
ミル@melissagreen if i already have a driver's license in the correct gender but am planning to travel with my "old" passport in a month, what should i do? is it worth the time crunch to re-apply? was kind of planning to leave that till the name change and/or surgery...
@mir I wouldn't given that time crunch, plus you will need the legal name change to change that part. Still time to get all that done, but I would recommend sooner rather than later.
@melissagreen thanks!
kira :3@melissagreen i just got mine in the incorrect gender because i don't know if i can get all my documents correct in time and it just feels like i should have parity across all of them since i'm trying to get out of here 
DF9HC@melissagreen It's time to remove this field from travel doc specification. #ICAO
@df9hc totally agree, and double for Social Security. Legal name change will always be required, tho.
@melissagreen Gender doesn't even have any benefit for identification
Andromeda Yelton@melissagreen this AND you don’t need documentation for a passport gender change right now - just check the checkbox with the right gender. Might not be true later. Is true now.
Here's a page with some related state law information about changing gender on driver's licenses as well as on a birth certificate:
https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/identity_document_laws
Florida continues to suck:
"In the past year, Florida’s health department has declined to amend gender markers on birth certificates for both transgender adults and minors. Although the agency says it is basing denials on pre-existing state statutes, transgender Floridians had previously been able to update their birth certificates for at least a decade. Now, they face an opaque process that seems designed to reject all applicants."
It's not like having my birth certificate "wrong" really bothers me, but this unfairness sure does.
https://19thnews.org/2024/07/florida-transgender-updated-birth-certificates/
Julia :v_bi::therian:@melissagreen heh... If only my name change court date was before the election..
cache, Δ-4b0082@melissagreen Big important playbook to keep in mind: I have heard that in Hungary, people's IDs may be checked at random by cops. If by the cops' judgement your gender is "wrong" on the ID, for instance because you changed it before this was made impossible, you may be arrested for "identity fraud" (on no legal basis whatsoever). For what happens then, check news coverage on queer folks deported to Hungary.
@cache The defense against this is to have many pieces of corroborating ID. The US identity environment is highly federated and generally poorly coordinated (witness how long it took RealID to come about). Rolling back IDs is gonna be an extremely heavy lift as a result of this.
There will be increased police harassment of trans people, we can be fairly sure of that, but there is no need to comply in advance, or make their lives easier.
Eva Chanda@melissagreen
Especially since the Trump regime will slow-walk or ban gender-affirming passports... My heart goes out to the trans community in the USA.
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Especially since the Trump regime will slow-walk or ban gender-affirming passports... My heart goes out to the trans community in the USA.
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it's winter@melissagreen any reason not to get the X gender marker as a nonbinary person?
@deadofwinter I don't have a good answer for you on this one. Lots of pros and cons. Does it make you more of a target? maybe? Is this going to be your last chance to get one for a while? Very likely.
@deadofwinter I have an update for this. In regards to passports State Dept has stated that they cannot identify changed gender markers. This makes the binary markers safer, but unfortunately probably makes X markers more of a ready target for any action.
@melissagreen gotcha thank you so much for looking into this
Sophie@melissagreen I do hope that’s true because it would be significantly more expensive for them to try to roll it back if they had to have a manual investigation rather than just running a database query. @deadofwinter