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.
How on Earth would they be even able to determine this? Particularly if you never had a passport in anything other than your true gender? I can’t imagine how they would accomplish this in those cases.
Most likely via Soc. Security records. most—tho’ not all—of us have our social security number issued prior to our transition. Then there’s the fact one of the efforts of DOGE was to merge all govt. databases into a single one run by Palantir.
Depends to some extent on the name of course but yes an overzealous process might well catch that. Some of us have fortunately ambiguous birth names. Most, I assume, not.
And complicate our lives. Having a passport with wrong gender and being a permanent resident in another country either our correct gender . Surely that will lead to being detained .
This is why I hope someone can argue that the gender marker isn't actually necessary to put on the document as it doesn't reflect appearance or physical appearance. You can legally change your name and they don't use what your original birth name was, so this is clearly meant to be discriminatory.
Sex wasn't always on passports... added in the 1970s, I believe... it's a good reason to get Dems back in office and in the White House to undo this nazi takeover of our government.
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 like this approach. FYI, when the First Amendment was penned, guaranteeing freedom of speech AND religion in the same amendment, our nation's founders were keenly aware of the Public Universal Friend ("PUF"), nee Jemima Wilkinson, who was likely the first person to transition (to nonbinary) in the newly declared United States of America. As I recall, it was in September of 1776. PUF was the cousin of the Governor of Rhode Island and was a well-known preacher who founded their own sect within the Friends Church. There's a book about them, "The Public Universal Friend" by historian Paul Moyer. That book discusses the climate of the day, when, for instance, evangelical (Baptist) men often became "brides of Christ," which included some degree of dressing and acting like women.
If original intent is argued on a First Amendment case, I would think the example of Jemima Wilkinson / PUF would be of considerable importance.
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.
I am the mom of a trans man as well. He had all his documents updated a couple years ago, except his birth certificate. We have been in a similar position of “do we, or do we not,” pursue the BC. Because right now it is difficult to search for this, but if he changes it…it might flag the system. Does he fly under the radar? Will he? He is supposed to go to Rome for a semester abroad in January (as part of his anthropology degree) …and he had to send in his passport for the student visa. Luckily he sent it in to the Italian consulate in Boston (maybe less likely to cause an issue there?) However, I am terrified…but am trying to NOT worry him, because what can he do? Big hug of support to you fellow mama bear.
There’s no good answer and the anxiety is real. I hope your son has a wonderful trip with no hiccups. My younger son went to Australia for a semester last year, but that was before all this BS.
IMO, he should renew. He may not have travel plans NOW, but he may need to leave the country urgently at some point. He will need a passport to do that.
They both had passports marked female as we went to Mexico when they were little. After they transitioned and changed their names, they got the passports changed to male. They both have birth certificates in their new names that say male so kind of wish we hadn’t taken that trip, as the feds would never know. But I mean, it’s pretty malicious to change them back to female.
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.
In order to open a constituent case, we need authorization to do so. Would you want the case to be specific to you? If so, please complete this form providing authorization: https://digitalprf.house.gov/AddressAuthentication?id=CA24.
I will follow up with our legislative team on the additional asks.
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.
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. 🤞
Pay special attention to the Legal Restrictions section. The reason it's best to re-enter through a pre-clearance point is that if something goes wrong, it goes wrong on foreign soil, where the laws are different. If you pre-clear customs in Canada, you will have a friendly place to stay while everything is sorted out. And if it's never sorted out, perhaps you'll have grounds for an asylum claim there, on the grounds that you've been rendered stateless.
I don’t want to give advice, but my experience with a green card is they like to make a fuss about it on a whim. I have a US and Canada passport with X now. The green card is issued by DHS, the same dept as the agents. After 9/11 the agents were looking for issues, but I had the green card because of work, while you’ll be together as a married couple and that satisfies them more (alone, they would ask to prove that you didn’t go away too long, because that would be one way to invalidate the card). They never want to see my Canadian passport.
I have no recent experience of entering by land, but the fact that you’ll be together is a good thing, you’ll show both IDs together, and try not to contradict what the green card says (it will only be a moment, they may be more curious if you have liquor or food).
That being said I just wonder how long it will take to get personnel at the state department to invalidate my passport when it took several months just to get it. I’ve already renounced to take trips just because of the agents, yet I know most of them are just tired.
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
The animus actually comes from the religious right (e.g. Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, etc.) The politicians are doing their bidding. There's a very good investigative podcast series by Imara Jones called "The Anti-Trans Hate Machine," that explores this power structure, how it is funded, and what it hopes to achieve.
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?
So many people change their names (e.g. women who marry), that it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Of course, there is now AI, which is adept at finding needles in haystacks. There is currently no executive order or official policy about name changes, though, which doesn't mean that won't happen in the future.
Could they carve out a special case for "cross-gender" changes of given name? Yeah, potentially. When I legally changed my given name, decades ago, the local court had a special, oppressive policy with regard to cross-gender name changes for trans people with children. We had to have our children psychologically evaluated to determine whether our cross-gender name change was "in the best interests of the children," and we had to present a letter from the psychologist that signed off on it.
Yes I agree, the reason I asked is because I don’t put it past the administration to waste time and resources on something like finding needles in haystacks for an issue that isn’t an issue
I don't either. I think this all makes sense if you view it through the proper lens. None of this is a Republican agenda, per se, and I don't think Dump PERSONALLY bears any animus towards us. This is all driven by the perverse views of the religious right, which wants us gone from society - and not just in the US. So, to the forces that are in control in this country (e.g. Heritage Foundation), we are indeed an important issue - one of the most important. It's why we feature in the forward of the Project 2025 "Mandate for Leadership," right on page 5 of the 920 page document, where the Heritage Foundation president says we should all be imprisoned for being "pornographic."
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.
this is not quite a correct comparison. I think keeping ourselves honest about where we’re at as a community will help more than whatever you hope to accomplish with this. they haven’t started invalidating passports yet and trans people can still travel.
edit 2 days later: so I’ve thought about it. the reason I called this out is because my personal passport is currently correct and I’ve been imagining my situation to represent All Things Trans Passport. but it is true that anyone obtaining a new passport will have theirs marked in a way that outs them and I have no doubt my passport will be among the first to be reverted because it was issued under this admin. I still think it’s too far to say that trans travel papers are “invalid” because they factually are not (yet) but the reason I actually pushed back on the similarity is not because of semantics, it’s because I’m scared shitless and want to believe this isn’t happening yet.
I think it's an honest comparison. Mr. Dump has been screwing with trans passports since 2019. He seemed to test this policy of revoking passports on a high-profile activist, Danni Askini. He took away her passport after she fled the US for Sweden, accusing her of "identity fraud," and leaving her effectively stateless. The Dump 1.0 Administration refused to clarify whether she was formally being charged and whether she could return safely to the US (without being arrested and prosecuted).
We cannot know what the future holds, of course, but we can make educated guesses. Back in 2019, I made an educated guess that Dump would try to impede our travel and that my US passport could potentially be revoked. That's when I decided to launch a very long and expensive lawsuit to prove that my biological father was European and to claim citizenship on those grounds. I now live abroad.
We've watched this tyrant for almost a decade now, and by now, we know how he operates. First it's trial balloons. Then it's small-scale testing. If that's successful, then it's full-scale roll-out. This psychopath doesn't understand reasonableness. He will go as far as he can, as fast as he is allowed. IMO, it's no longer a matter of "if," but rather of "when." It's getting pretty clear that SCROTUS will let him.
IMO, the air is thick with smoke. Either run for your life or figure out how you're going to protect yourself from the coming fire. But the worst thing you can do is to waste time denying that there's smoke.
To be more accurate, that was the date the nazis stamped all passports of Jews with a giant "J" for "Jude." They did this on request of the Swiss police, who wanted a way to identify which Germans were Jewish. Regardless, I think your comparison is apt. It's the day they label us and single us out. There may come a day that they stamp a giant "T" inside our passports. Dump does like to emulate Hitler, after all. His base gets off on it.
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.
And is anyone surprised. And exactly how do they invalidate a passport, do they send you another one or is it just not valid and you don’t know it is. What a pile of 💩
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.
How on Earth would they be even able to determine this? Particularly if you never had a passport in anything other than your true gender? I can’t imagine how they would accomplish this in those cases.
Most likely via Soc. Security records. most—tho’ not all—of us have our social security number issued prior to our transition. Then there’s the fact one of the efforts of DOGE was to merge all govt. databases into a single one run by Palantir.
When you apply for a passport, they ask you for your prior names. If you answer honestly, then they already have the information.
Depends to some extent on the name of course but yes an overzealous process might well catch that. Some of us have fortunately ambiguous birth names. Most, I assume, not.
And complicate our lives. Having a passport with wrong gender and being a permanent resident in another country either our correct gender . Surely that will lead to being detained .
Indeed! A very real and potentially dangerous situation.
This is why I hope someone can argue that the gender marker isn't actually necessary to put on the document as it doesn't reflect appearance or physical appearance. You can legally change your name and they don't use what your original birth name was, so this is clearly meant to be discriminatory.
Sex wasn't always on passports... added in the 1970s, I believe... it's a good reason to get Dems back in office and in the White House to undo this nazi takeover of our government.
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 like this approach. FYI, when the First Amendment was penned, guaranteeing freedom of speech AND religion in the same amendment, our nation's founders were keenly aware of the Public Universal Friend ("PUF"), nee Jemima Wilkinson, who was likely the first person to transition (to nonbinary) in the newly declared United States of America. As I recall, it was in September of 1776. PUF was the cousin of the Governor of Rhode Island and was a well-known preacher who founded their own sect within the Friends Church. There's a book about them, "The Public Universal Friend" by historian Paul Moyer. That book discusses the climate of the day, when, for instance, evangelical (Baptist) men often became "brides of Christ," which included some degree of dressing and acting like women.
If original intent is argued on a First Amendment case, I would think the example of Jemima Wilkinson / PUF would be of considerable importance.
Good luck and godspeed!
Wait, we have rights? /sarcasm
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.
I am the mom of a trans man as well. He had all his documents updated a couple years ago, except his birth certificate. We have been in a similar position of “do we, or do we not,” pursue the BC. Because right now it is difficult to search for this, but if he changes it…it might flag the system. Does he fly under the radar? Will he? He is supposed to go to Rome for a semester abroad in January (as part of his anthropology degree) …and he had to send in his passport for the student visa. Luckily he sent it in to the Italian consulate in Boston (maybe less likely to cause an issue there?) However, I am terrified…but am trying to NOT worry him, because what can he do? Big hug of support to you fellow mama bear.
There’s no good answer and the anxiety is real. I hope your son has a wonderful trip with no hiccups. My younger son went to Australia for a semester last year, but that was before all this BS.
Wow. As a mom to a similarly positioned young man, I feel this so much.
IMO, he should renew. He may not have travel plans NOW, but he may need to leave the country urgently at some point. He will need a passport to do that.
What Jenny said. Did your older son hold a previous passport marked female? That’s my son’s situation and his passport expires in 2027.
They both had passports marked female as we went to Mexico when they were little. After they transitioned and changed their names, they got the passports changed to male. They both have birth certificates in their new names that say male so kind of wish we hadn’t taken that trip, as the feds would never know. But I mean, it’s pretty malicious to change them back to female.
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 got a response:
Hi Michelle,
In order to open a constituent case, we need authorization to do so. Would you want the case to be specific to you? If so, please complete this form providing authorization: https://digitalprf.house.gov/AddressAuthentication?id=CA24.
I will follow up with our legislative team on the additional asks.
Be well,
Erica A. Reyes | District Director
they/she
Congressman Salud Carbajal, CA-24
Erica.Reyes@mail.house.gov
(805) 730.1710 | (805) 699.1441 cell
I offer my compliments on a superbly written letter!
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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 wonder if this would be enough to warrant an asylum claim
Let's hope.
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. 🤞
One word of advice: Re-enter the US through a pre-clearance location (US customs on foreign soil). See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_border_preclearance
Pay special attention to the Legal Restrictions section. The reason it's best to re-enter through a pre-clearance point is that if something goes wrong, it goes wrong on foreign soil, where the laws are different. If you pre-clear customs in Canada, you will have a friendly place to stay while everything is sorted out. And if it's never sorted out, perhaps you'll have grounds for an asylum claim there, on the grounds that you've been rendered stateless.
I don’t want to give advice, but my experience with a green card is they like to make a fuss about it on a whim. I have a US and Canada passport with X now. The green card is issued by DHS, the same dept as the agents. After 9/11 the agents were looking for issues, but I had the green card because of work, while you’ll be together as a married couple and that satisfies them more (alone, they would ask to prove that you didn’t go away too long, because that would be one way to invalidate the card). They never want to see my Canadian passport.
I have no recent experience of entering by land, but the fact that you’ll be together is a good thing, you’ll show both IDs together, and try not to contradict what the green card says (it will only be a moment, they may be more curious if you have liquor or food).
That being said I just wonder how long it will take to get personnel at the state department to invalidate my passport when it took several months just to get it. I’ve already renounced to take trips just because of the agents, yet I know most of them are just tired.
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
The animus actually comes from the religious right (e.g. Heritage Foundation, Project 2025, etc.) The politicians are doing their bidding. There's a very good investigative podcast series by Imara Jones called "The Anti-Trans Hate Machine," that explores this power structure, how it is funded, and what it hopes to achieve.
Boycott! Vote! Get involved if feel safe! Do not give up hope! The pendulum will swing back!
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.
So many people change their names (e.g. women who marry), that it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Of course, there is now AI, which is adept at finding needles in haystacks. There is currently no executive order or official policy about name changes, though, which doesn't mean that won't happen in the future.
Could they carve out a special case for "cross-gender" changes of given name? Yeah, potentially. When I legally changed my given name, decades ago, the local court had a special, oppressive policy with regard to cross-gender name changes for trans people with children. We had to have our children psychologically evaluated to determine whether our cross-gender name change was "in the best interests of the children," and we had to present a letter from the psychologist that signed off on it.
Yes I agree, the reason I asked is because I don’t put it past the administration to waste time and resources on something like finding needles in haystacks for an issue that isn’t an issue
I don't either. I think this all makes sense if you view it through the proper lens. None of this is a Republican agenda, per se, and I don't think Dump PERSONALLY bears any animus towards us. This is all driven by the perverse views of the religious right, which wants us gone from society - and not just in the US. So, to the forces that are in control in this country (e.g. Heritage Foundation), we are indeed an important issue - one of the most important. It's why we feature in the forward of the Project 2025 "Mandate for Leadership," right on page 5 of the 920 page document, where the Heritage Foundation president says we should all be imprisoned for being "pornographic."
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.
this is not quite a correct comparison. I think keeping ourselves honest about where we’re at as a community will help more than whatever you hope to accomplish with this. they haven’t started invalidating passports yet and trans people can still travel.
edit 2 days later: so I’ve thought about it. the reason I called this out is because my personal passport is currently correct and I’ve been imagining my situation to represent All Things Trans Passport. but it is true that anyone obtaining a new passport will have theirs marked in a way that outs them and I have no doubt my passport will be among the first to be reverted because it was issued under this admin. I still think it’s too far to say that trans travel papers are “invalid” because they factually are not (yet) but the reason I actually pushed back on the similarity is not because of semantics, it’s because I’m scared shitless and want to believe this isn’t happening yet.
I think it's an honest comparison. Mr. Dump has been screwing with trans passports since 2019. He seemed to test this policy of revoking passports on a high-profile activist, Danni Askini. He took away her passport after she fled the US for Sweden, accusing her of "identity fraud," and leaving her effectively stateless. The Dump 1.0 Administration refused to clarify whether she was formally being charged and whether she could return safely to the US (without being arrested and prosecuted).
We cannot know what the future holds, of course, but we can make educated guesses. Back in 2019, I made an educated guess that Dump would try to impede our travel and that my US passport could potentially be revoked. That's when I decided to launch a very long and expensive lawsuit to prove that my biological father was European and to claim citizenship on those grounds. I now live abroad.
We've watched this tyrant for almost a decade now, and by now, we know how he operates. First it's trial balloons. Then it's small-scale testing. If that's successful, then it's full-scale roll-out. This psychopath doesn't understand reasonableness. He will go as far as he can, as fast as he is allowed. IMO, it's no longer a matter of "if," but rather of "when." It's getting pretty clear that SCROTUS will let him.
IMO, the air is thick with smoke. Either run for your life or figure out how you're going to protect yourself from the coming fire. But the worst thing you can do is to waste time denying that there's smoke.
To be more accurate, that was the date the nazis stamped all passports of Jews with a giant "J" for "Jude." They did this on request of the Swiss police, who wanted a way to identify which Germans were Jewish. Regardless, I think your comparison is apt. It's the day they label us and single us out. There may come a day that they stamp a giant "T" inside our passports. Dump does like to emulate Hitler, after all. His base gets off on it.
I used to be proud to be an American citizen. Not anymore.
You and me both!!
Right there with ya
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.
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?
Try your aclu chapter or A4TE (transequality.org)
I find this extremely scary.
Such.Bullshit.
And is anyone surprised. And exactly how do they invalidate a passport, do they send you another one or is it just not valid and you don’t know it is. What a pile of 💩