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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 02:26 PM Jul 2018

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

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Hekate

(90,189 posts)
4. So tell me again: who is that Wall separating us from? and is it keeping "them" out? or us in?
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 03:16 PM
Jul 2018

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.

sdfernando

(4,896 posts)
6. This almost preoccupation with Transgendered people make me wonder
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 03:49 PM
Jul 2018

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)
9. Stabs at the heart of a homophobe weakling's self-image.
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 05:28 PM
Jul 2018

Much as a physically strong, or non-effeminate woman does.

dawnie51

(959 posts)
7. Who in hell....
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 05:13 PM
Jul 2018

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)
10. And also how do they sleep at night?
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 05:35 PM
Jul 2018

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)
11. These are the same people who put little children in cages then make sure their parents ...
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 07:06 PM
Jul 2018

...can't find them. They design chaos to cause pain. Hell is too good for them.

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