FYI. 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.

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@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.

@thatandromeda @melissagreen

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

Movement Advancement Project | Identity Document Laws and Policies

These maps outline ID laws and policies for updating gender markers on driver's licenses and birth certificates, as well as legal requirements for name changes by state.

@thatandromeda @melissagreen

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/