"The Department of DOJ has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR."

They want trans people raped.

I live as a man and am seen as a man. That is a verifiable fact whether or not I am "really" a man. Having a passport that outs me would expose my private life and put me in danger. The government shouldn't get to impose that on me because of some philosophical abstraction.

I really dislike this question of whether trans people are "really" women/men. It's the framing the anti-trans activists prefer, and as far as I'm concerned it's also completely irrelevant.

What many quotes seem to say is having identity documents at odds with your lived sex creates opportunities for discrimination and harassment.

The reporter heard about these practical concerns, but chose to focus her story more on what a trans person's "true" identity is and who gets to decide it.

What I dislike about the story is that the author presents the central tension as being about identity and validity: Are trans people "really" who we say we are?

The story claims that this is what many trans people told the reporter. Interestingly, none of the quotes from trans people say this.

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Thanks!! I’m just worried if I submit for a data correction (instead of a new application), things might get held up, or denied (they could argue the data was “correct” at the time it was printed). But hopefully guidance is issued soon

I have kinda the same question bc I also got my passport under the Trump EO rule with the wrong sex marker—Should we apply for a passport renewal (DS-82), or data correction (DS-5504)?

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Maybe I lack imagination tho

I hate that for me…