Deviant OllamFeb 28, 2025

Many of you know that the administration is trying a lot of fuckery with US Passports and gender markers right now. They violated the Administrative Procedure Act by doing this without a comment period.

Right now, they are trying to cure the APA violation by having an after-the-fact comment period...

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/14/2025-02648/30-day-notice-of-proposed-information-collection-application-for-a-us-passport#open-comment

... you can go there RIGHT NOW and make your voice heard. The comments currently are overwhelmingly negative, opposing the administration's bigoted and harmful rule changes.

If you can, please go add your voice. You may think it will make no difference, but the courts can and will look at all of this. Your comment RIGHT NOW opposing passport sex marker nonsense can make you a part of yet another inevitable Trump loss in the court systems soon.

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@deviantollam for anyone commenting, it's worth noting that the U.S. State Department has been allowing folks to update their gender marker since at least November, 1980. Passports did not include a sex or gender marker until 1977. For those keeping score at home, trans people have been allowed to change the gender marker on their passport for at least 44 out of 48 years they have included such markers.
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