Report: State Department retroactively revoking passports from transgender women
Source: Axios
Michael Sykes1 hour ago
Transgender women are saying their passports are being retroactively revoked by the State Department with officials requiring them to submit proof of a gender transition, reports Mary Emily O'Hara of Them.
Why it matters: This appears to be another black mark for the Trump administration when dealing with the transgender community. The administration included the word "transgender" on its banned word list for the Center for Disease Control and also disqualified transgender people from the military earlier this year.
What they're saying: David Stacy, the Director of Government Affairs for the Human Rights Campaign, called the reports of passport revocation are "disturbing," saying the policies are clear.
The other side: New passports with updated gender markers are issued when applicants present certification from a physician, the State Department told O'Hara.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/trans-women-passport-issue-state-department-trump-aa249a45-55aa-4923-8090-ad26ba220e98.html
Initech
(99,913 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,787 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)Godsdammit, I hate Trumpists and all their works.
I also hate their enablers, whatever they choose to call themselves.
So at DU, all during the Obama years, we had to put up with shit from people with ODS who claimed to speak for the LGBTQ community. He was "spelunking," "throwing people under the bus" every day, lying from start to finish.
Now everything Barack Obama managed to get done for the LGBTQ community is being undone as fast as Trumpists can manage. Just wait till they come for marriage. That, I dare say, is going to be the LGBTQ community's Roe v. Wade -- something they think is settled law until bigots and fanatics go to war chipping away at it.
Where is the endless outrage from those DUers? Where is the recognition that they were wrong? Trump is the Enemy. Worse, Trump is the Trojan Horse.
world wide wally
(21,719 posts)Anybody got any ideas where we could find one?
sdfernando
(4,896 posts)if orange pustule had and encounter with a transgender individual back during his Vietnam Sexcapade days. I keep thinking of that scene in Victor Victoria when King finds out Victoria is a man. Only this didn't turn out so well.
Mopar151
(9,965 posts)Much as a physically strong, or non-effeminate woman does.
area51
(11,868 posts)February Fact check on LGBT rights & Pence
dawnie51
(959 posts)sits around and just dreams up each and every possible way to screw over complete strangers for no purpose whatsoever? It is just astounding. Venal creatures.
Initech
(99,913 posts)Knowing that they make money off the backs of human sufferage and taking the progress of civil rights back 100 years?
Hekate
(90,189 posts)...can't find them. They design chaos to cause pain. Hell is too good for them.
JI7
(89,173 posts)when trump already doing this type of shit.