For transgender Americans, passports just got a lot more complicated
LA TimesMellow, a transgender woman, poses for a portrait recently outside of the Norfolk Circuit Court in Norfolk, Va., where she applied for a passport. “If the worst was to come to worst and things were to threaten my life,” she said, “I would have some way out.” Trump’s Jan. 20 order, which questions the existence of transgender and nonbinary people, created confusion and pain for Mellow and others seeking new, renewed or updated passports. The State Department fell in line with Trump’s order The State Department quickly stopped issuing travel documents with the “X” gender marker preferred by many nonbinary people, who don’t identify as strictly male or female. Trump has targeted transgender people on several fronts The passport policy is among several actions Trump has taken since returning to office that could stifle rights and legal recognition of transgender, intersex and nonbinary people. Seeking a passport change means handing over documents Anticipating a passport change, Ash Lazarus Orr, a West Virginia advocate for transgender people, sent in an expedited application to change the gender marker on his passport from “F” to “M” days before Trump took office.
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