It seems like such a legal mess. What if someone had been able to get their birth certificate changed? What if they had gender affirming surgery? And the psychological damage even if they’ve been unable to do those things.
This is my biggest question. I had every document in existence changed over a decade ago.
I can't do it. I did everything 'right' and I was finally happy; I've been living authentically for so long, I can't go back to being outed by pieces of paper.
I’ve had the same concerns! My documents and legal sex were changed over 34 years ago. My birth certificate . . . all my ID . . . I feel like the very happiness I worked so very hard to achieve is not just being chipped away, but being demolished. No matter what they do to me/us it won’t change who I am, but it will shroud my existence in a dark haze.
I have requested council for a challenge against this using our 1st Amendment rights and how this now compelled speech and forcing a lie about ourselves. Essentially, the government, primarily the state department is forcing us to lie who we are, infringing our rights.
I’m a parent of two trans men. Both had passports that showed a male marker. One renewed his over the summer and they reverted the gender to female. The other one’s is due for renewal in January and I’m torn between reminding him to renew it and the mental harm it will cause him and pretending I forgot it needed renewing. He doesn’t have any travel plans in the near future but who knows. (He’s only 20 and more mentally fragile than his older brother). The cruelty of this administration is beyond words.
My wife is a Canadian citizen and a trans woman with a green card in her previous name & gender. Her Canadian birth certificate & passport were updated in 2016 when she did her legal name & gender change in California. We had just renewed her green card in January of 2015 & didn’t have the money to do it again so soon. It had been no trouble to travel like this. In Nov 2024, we applied for renewal with her proper legal name & gender, but after some back & forth, the new green card was issued in her old name & gender. We decided not to travel internationally. However her mum is turning 90 in Feb & we are going to Canada to celebrate with the family. Do you or any other readers have any advice for us wrt coming back in to the US at the end of that trip? We plan to cross at a small land crossing. Thanks in advance. 🤞
I’m curious if this would only apply to people who have opted to change their gender marker, or if they may also attempt to revoke passports of people who only changed their name?
I’m writing to follow up on my earlier message about the Supreme Court’s shadow-docket order allowing enforcement of the federal passport policy affecting transgender people.
As of this morning, the U.S. State Department quietly updated its public guidance to say: “A passport is valid for travel until its date of expiration, until you replace it, or until we invalidate it under federal regulations.” This language appears on the State Department’s “Sex Marker in Passports” page and represents a shift from prior wording that reassured holders their documents would remain valid until expiration. Travel
Journalist Erin Reed documented the change and reports that the administration is actively discussing potential revocations—particularly for people with X markers and those, like me, who received passports under the injunction via the attestation process. Her write-up is here: “Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports.” Erin in the Morning+1
I signed that attestation. I am therefore directly at risk if the Department proceeds with invalidations.
I respectfully request that your office:
Open a constituent casework inquiry with the State Department to confirm whether attestation-issued passports are being flagged for revocation, and whether any revocations have begun or are planned.
Provide periodic updates to affected constituents on any policy moves or timelines the Department shares with you.
Consider a public statement urging the Department to refrain from blanket invalidations and to preserve the validity of already-issued passports.
Coordinate with California’s delegation and relevant committees to ensure oversight of any contemplated revocation process.
Thank you for your attention and for monitoring this on behalf of constituents who may face immediate travel and safety impacts. I’m happy to provide documentation of my issuance and attestation upon request.
These MF’s will go to any lengths to pick on a group of people who want nothing more than to be able yo live their lives in peace. I just don’t understand the animus these ignorant self serving politicians have. I really wonder what they are hiding about their own sexual proclivities. I wonder what a real dive into these holy rollers would reveal. To take away what has already give is extremely shameful. WE MUST CONTINUE TO PUSH BACK ON TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION CONTINUALLY AND VOTE THEM OUT When THE TIME COMES
This is awful, but with the shutdown and the wrecking ball of DOGE before that, the State Department's ability to actually do this will probably be limited.
It also opens up a good avenue of political attack for daring Democratic candidates in the midterms and the 2028 election. Find someone whose passport was invalidated - either a sympathetic-looking trans person or a cis person who got caught up in the net - and make the argument that the time and money spend messing with their life could have been used to do things of actual benefit to Americans.
Just the argument that you, the voter, had to wait an extra two weeks for your passport because Donnie was more focused on rooting out trans people than actually doing his job would probably be a winner.
and what of the Enhanced Drivers License that acts as a passport for land/water crossings to CA and MX. that's a state issued ID that must have some connection to State Department records as far as it being an international border id.
On October 5 1938 the Nazis declared all Jews travel papers invalid. On November 6 2025 the US Supreme Court declared transgender peoples' travel papers to be invalid.
It seems like such a legal mess. What if someone had been able to get their birth certificate changed? What if they had gender affirming surgery? And the psychological damage even if they’ve been unable to do those things.
This timeline sucks.
This is my biggest question. I had every document in existence changed over a decade ago.
I can't do it. I did everything 'right' and I was finally happy; I've been living authentically for so long, I can't go back to being outed by pieces of paper.
Fuck this timeline.
I’ve had the same concerns! My documents and legal sex were changed over 34 years ago. My birth certificate . . . all my ID . . . I feel like the very happiness I worked so very hard to achieve is not just being chipped away, but being demolished. No matter what they do to me/us it won’t change who I am, but it will shroud my existence in a dark haze.
I have requested council for a challenge against this using our 1st Amendment rights and how this now compelled speech and forcing a lie about ourselves. Essentially, the government, primarily the state department is forcing us to lie who we are, infringing our rights.
I’m a parent of two trans men. Both had passports that showed a male marker. One renewed his over the summer and they reverted the gender to female. The other one’s is due for renewal in January and I’m torn between reminding him to renew it and the mental harm it will cause him and pretending I forgot it needed renewing. He doesn’t have any travel plans in the near future but who knows. (He’s only 20 and more mentally fragile than his older brother). The cruelty of this administration is beyond words.
Wow. As a mom to a similarly positioned young man, I feel this so much.
My wife is a Canadian citizen and a trans woman with a green card in her previous name & gender. Her Canadian birth certificate & passport were updated in 2016 when she did her legal name & gender change in California. We had just renewed her green card in January of 2015 & didn’t have the money to do it again so soon. It had been no trouble to travel like this. In Nov 2024, we applied for renewal with her proper legal name & gender, but after some back & forth, the new green card was issued in her old name & gender. We decided not to travel internationally. However her mum is turning 90 in Feb & we are going to Canada to celebrate with the family. Do you or any other readers have any advice for us wrt coming back in to the US at the end of that trip? We plan to cross at a small land crossing. Thanks in advance. 🤞
I’m curious if this would only apply to people who have opted to change their gender marker, or if they may also attempt to revoke passports of people who only changed their name?
Gender marker only is what sources tell me and a plain reading of the court fight.
Dear Congressman Carbajal,
I’m writing to follow up on my earlier message about the Supreme Court’s shadow-docket order allowing enforcement of the federal passport policy affecting transgender people.
As of this morning, the U.S. State Department quietly updated its public guidance to say: “A passport is valid for travel until its date of expiration, until you replace it, or until we invalidate it under federal regulations.” This language appears on the State Department’s “Sex Marker in Passports” page and represents a shift from prior wording that reassured holders their documents would remain valid until expiration. Travel
Journalist Erin Reed documented the change and reports that the administration is actively discussing potential revocations—particularly for people with X markers and those, like me, who received passports under the injunction via the attestation process. Her write-up is here: “Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports.” Erin in the Morning+1
I signed that attestation. I am therefore directly at risk if the Department proceeds with invalidations.
I respectfully request that your office:
Open a constituent casework inquiry with the State Department to confirm whether attestation-issued passports are being flagged for revocation, and whether any revocations have begun or are planned.
Provide periodic updates to affected constituents on any policy moves or timelines the Department shares with you.
Consider a public statement urging the Department to refrain from blanket invalidations and to preserve the validity of already-issued passports.
Coordinate with California’s delegation and relevant committees to ensure oversight of any contemplated revocation process.
Thank you for your attention and for monitoring this on behalf of constituents who may face immediate travel and safety impacts. I’m happy to provide documentation of my issuance and attestation upon request.
With appreciation,
Michelle Rosenblum (she/her)
Ventura, CA
I wonder if this would be enough to warrant an asylum claim
Let's hope.
Such.Bullshit.
If anyone is an X passport holder living abroad who wants to connect, feel free to message me here. Maybe we make a signal group.
These MF’s will go to any lengths to pick on a group of people who want nothing more than to be able yo live their lives in peace. I just don’t understand the animus these ignorant self serving politicians have. I really wonder what they are hiding about their own sexual proclivities. I wonder what a real dive into these holy rollers would reveal. To take away what has already give is extremely shameful. WE MUST CONTINUE TO PUSH BACK ON TRUMP AND HIS ADMINISTRATION CONTINUALLY AND VOTE THEM OUT When THE TIME COMES
Parent of an adult with an X passport obtained before this administration… and deeply concerned
my kid is willing to be a plaintiff / be public ... how can I get in touch with the legal teams tackling trans passport issues?
I find this extremely scary.
This is awful, but with the shutdown and the wrecking ball of DOGE before that, the State Department's ability to actually do this will probably be limited.
It also opens up a good avenue of political attack for daring Democratic candidates in the midterms and the 2028 election. Find someone whose passport was invalidated - either a sympathetic-looking trans person or a cis person who got caught up in the net - and make the argument that the time and money spend messing with their life could have been used to do things of actual benefit to Americans.
Just the argument that you, the voter, had to wait an extra two weeks for your passport because Donnie was more focused on rooting out trans people than actually doing his job would probably be a winner.
I used to be proud to be an American citizen. Not anymore.
You and me both!!
and what of the Enhanced Drivers License that acts as a passport for land/water crossings to CA and MX. that's a state issued ID that must have some connection to State Department records as far as it being an international border id.
On October 5 1938 the Nazis declared all Jews travel papers invalid. On November 6 2025 the US Supreme Court declared transgender peoples' travel papers to be invalid.