On Sunday, far-right outlet The Free Press leaked what is expected to be the first anti-trans executive order Trump will sign. There could be more. Here are the ones experts expect.
I knew there would be some extremely harsh orders coming in, but I now seriously feel like my life is in danger. I'm doing everything I can to accelerate my plans to leave the country. I know it's not a solution for everyone or choice, but I am hoping that everyone is taking the time to evaluate their choices and options to survive. Survival is resistance.
That's a good plan, and I encourage anyone who has the financial ability either personal by saving or by using FAFSA AKA Student Loans to go to Graduate Schools Abroad for a marketable degrees in potentially gaining PR (permanent residency) to said country depending on the rules for Immigration.
Remember that for those who are going the FAFSA route, that Foreign Earned Income Tax Exclusion exist. America is one of the few countries that makes people filed taxes yearly and if you make under $126,500 per year (Single or married file separately) or $253,000 (If Married and File Jointly) then when you do taxes yearly, your loan repayments would be supposedly $0 dollars and you can ride it off until you can do a tax bomb whenever your dateline is for forgiveness depending on your loan repayment plan.
I understand not everyone can do this for numerous reasons, but if you are mentally checked out, have the capabilities of working your behind off either in another countries uni for another degree or able to get PR based off work experience and your current degree or the rare people who qualify for citizenship by ancestry or marriage then by all means take advantage of everything within your capabilities since you only have one life so do whatever you can to make yourself happy if leaving the US can be the answer for you or others
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for people of good character to do nothing.” I’ve heard this expression since I was a child 60 years ago. Yet today, it became painfully obvious how true this statement is.
Trying to think of this as MLK Jr Day rather than Inauguration day, but in reality, it's both/and. May we all raise our voices to say NO to the legalization of dehumanization and oppression in all its malignant forms. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Unfortunately Project 2025 is happening full speed in hurting the LGBTQIA+ Community who are in the USA and that may lead to influence other countries globally to do things similar to other minorities of their population including to the LGBTQIA+ individuals.
I am speechless of all the Executive Orders happening on Day 1 and the dangers that we all be facing no matter what US State we are in, we have to be extremely guarded and be aware of what's happening as much as our mental health can allow to do so. We have no one but ourselves to look after so we have to know our laws and figure out a way to simply survive being ourselves in the "New America".
Really sickening on how extreme the New US Presidential administration is for their definition of supposedly only two "binary" genders existing (Hurts seeing that as Someone who is under both Transgender & Non Binary Umbrella). The LGBTQIA+ population in prison is probably gonna be more suicidal or they will be in worse situations without barley anyone caring/listening to them due to no regulation on Transgender Healthcare in prison no matter what anyone did to being locked up.
So much is going on, that I truly don't blame anyone who is losing faith in America and feeling scared, I'm nervous too as someone who's BIPOC LGBTQIA+ and don't got irl support and life just generally sucks. Really wished I have the resources to just check out of being in a Do Not Travel State and just America itself but immigration is hard + expensive even for those eligible, and finding a different degree to be marketable in seems exhausting as well.
Overall, really disappointed in what's happening in America and anyone who voted for the new administration but it's now supposedly regretting it, I don't feel sorry at all for what it's coming to all of us. Only minorities that tried to prevent it or is currently being effected that isn't apart of the leopard eat their faces team, I'm feeling sympathetic of.
I run out of Fs to give over people selling our rights, pushing progress backwards for who knows how many decades back over not understanding inflation, or unable to see the bigger picture in voting for a candidate who may not fit every box (rarely we see candidates like that in politics) but chooses to vote for someone who is just playing the game and not willing to work with us in protecting our country bylaws and etc.
Everything that could happen and may happen will be under Project 2025 and regardless of what happens in the 4 years and beyond, I will never forgive voters who made us in this situation since it's gonna be a bumpy road for all minority groups, even for people who are against the LGBTQIA+ community.
Minorities involved Disabled People, Neurodivergence, BIPOC/POC People, Immigrants, and many other groups of individuals that are considered to be a minority or under represented population.
So for everyone's sakes, we should all continue to stay informed, unite and support each another as things proceed to effect all of our livelihoods in America or worse, as mentioned in the beginning, caused other countries globally to mimic our behaviors (the country) for their citizens/people to feel as well.
I am seriously scared for our country. It is not just trans people who will be harmed. If you aren't white and wealthy or complacent and easily used to fuel their wealth amd control, you are in danger.
Sucks on so many levels. I fiddle farted around too long to change my gender marker on my passport and am scrambling to do that now. At least my state of Nevada allows for gender marker X.
While I don’t consider myself transgender, I changed my state ID sex marker to “X” a few years ago. If anyone ever actually asks me what the “X” means, I’ll smile and say “it means none of your business”
You can still do your passport and other needed legal stuff, for some of it like passport, you just need to expedite it but having a passport is a good first step to do so sooner rather than later.
I am under the Non Binary Spectrum so I really wanted to change my gender market to X but, I didn't want to take that chance on the low chance some TSA Agents or other Countries version of TSA give me trouble if I am somehow stuck at a airport when traveling international to get to my final destination in the Oceania Area.
But not everyone thinks like that and we even got warning that some countries do not accept those with X gender marker so we be putting a target on ourselves, so I say that consider the risk in doing so and if it doesn't bother you or know for a fact any countries you want to vacation, visit or leave the US over would accept the X gender market on the passport then you should be good to go
FAIW, Iceland recognizes X markers, and the gender marker is based on self-determination. Anyone with an X passport who needs to travel to the Schengen region of Europe (most European countries) could simply enter there. From that point onward, there appears to be no passport control, unless you have something to "declare." My passport has an F. However, it was just recently my experience that when I flew from the US to Barcelona, via Reykjavik, my passport was checked in Reykjavik, but NOT in Barcelona. From Barcelona, I could then travel anywhere within the Schengen area without having to use my passport.
Thank you for your reporting, Mira and Erin! This is much of what we already expected, but it helps, emotionally, to prepare ourselves. I will be particularly interested to learn what these policies will mean for people who have already changed their documentation. In particular, I am wondering whether our having docs reflecting non-birth gender will be treated legally as "fraudulent." I am also interested in learning how foreign passports will be regarded by the US government if they do not reflect birth gender - and in particular if the passport holder was actually born in the US. Sucky times!
My #1 concern also (the passport). I am quite sure that U.S. border control can't know anything that isn't encoded in the chip or provided by separate notice (as with "wanted" lists). Countries that recognized gender-consistent passports would likely not put that into their encoded data. But of course the only way to know for sure is ask said country.
Many countries share passport identity linking data which ties subsequent passports together, linking your old and new passport information. This has been the case for decades. If you had a different name and gender marker on an old passport and travelled abroad your former identity will be stored in foreign immigration databases.
That still depends on whether the country shares this information. In Germany the federal government will not disclose that history (even under the old 1980 law, which was restrictive in requiring genital surgery, but once done it sealed previous documents. Only an appropriate court order (which international travel does not fit the definition of) could access the history. The law is written in language similar to what California uses for an updated birth certificate.
I am certainly not a lawyer and don't know other country's practices. It seems likely that they vary.
I have seen it in action. Your government can't recall your previous passport details. My friend transitioned, obtained a GRC and updated her sealed birth record in the UK in 2002. She had a new passport issued and then to her surprise when she next visited Australia, which she had visited 10 years earlier on her old passport, and they knew her previous name and sex because the two were linked. If you have previously traveled overseas on an old passport and then travel on an updated one you should assume the immigration staff can see your entire passport history on their screen. I won't be visiting the USA again for a while.
Yes a similar thing happened to me when I was trying to update my children's passports (which require the parents' "names at birth") i brought my updated birth certificate (name and gender corrected) and they told me it didn't matter that I had changed it, the only "truly valid" one was the original. It struck DEEP fear in my chest.
The rightwingers are now going full genocide on transgender human beings. I have a new BC with original date of birth, court ordered name change, driver license, passport and FAA piolts certificate. I FEAR that all that is now threatened. Very scary. Like Nazi Germany.
I am worried about this, too. My adult daughter got her name change on her BC, and we just received and sent in the docs needed to correct it to F (had to prove she had surgery). We are in a red state that already is trying to erase her. At least her passport will come back soon with the correct marker, but I hope we can still get the rest changed.
I’m anxious to see what happens with passports. I’m trans and currently live in the EU. I changed my gender marker on my passport years ago. If they rescind gender marker changes and mandate they have to reflect gender as assigned at birth, will my passport be confiscated when I come back to the US? (Unfortunately, I have to several times a year.)
So, I have long considered a similar question. I hold a US passport and have claim dual citizenship in an EU country, which is still making its way through bureaucratic channels. I've only just now jumped the pond. My concern was that I might become stranded in the US if my passport were revoked by Trump 2.0. My attorneys told me that if I had remained in the US and had my only passport confiscated, I could probably approach the consulate of my 2nd EU country to request a "safe conduct" or "safe passage" pass, which functions somewhat like a one-time passport for the purpose of leaving the US and landing in my country in the EU. These passes are usually issued to citizens of the returning country under unusual circumstances. However, my attorneys felt I would qualify as well.
In your case, not knowing more about your situation, you might be able to get a safe passage pass if the US snatches your passport away. You would need to inquire with your EU country's State Dept. as to whether they could/would do that for you. FAIW, don't expect any country to recognize you as a refugee, because the US is considered a "safe" country. (!!) One exception might be Sweden, as they did process Danni Askini's asylum claim, so perhaps there is precedent.
As for myself, there was just too much uncertainty swirling around the launch of Trump 2.0. For instance, if they revoked my passport and also questioned my birthright citizenship (my having been born within 100 mi of the southern border), and if the military is being used to round up people living in the US illegally, could I somehow be swept up and placed in a (MEN's) detention center? There were just too many unanswered questions. I was ready to chance it, prepared to skip to Canada without documentation if needed. However, my entire family urged me to leave "now" while I still could. I don't know that they were wrong.
Thanks for your reply. I still have three years of living in the EU before I can apply for citizenship. While I could get by not returning to the USA during that time, it would come with a number of difficulties in terms of commitments back in the States. I’m certainly not willing to go back if it would entail ending up in an American prison. (Especially if it would be back in Texas where I’m from!)
That being said, I recognize that I have a great deal of privilege in being able to emigrate from the states when I did.
My thoughts are with all those who for whatever reason are stuck in the US.
Removing Legal Recognition of Transgender People etc. how does all this bullcrap increase GDP - thus the living standard and financial health of people and families - of the USA? How come honest, working people are persecuted by such clowns and are forced to pay for their meals and shoes? It is not work what they do it doesn't help anyone, these politicians should go and find a job. Parasites.
On this inauguration day my wonderful spouse invited me to join her in a retreat on the north shore of Lake Superior. We've come up about half way between my home in Duluth and the Canadian border. Which way shall I turn as we end our retreat on Wednesday? We all have choices to make in these coming days.
I put my order for a passport in when he was elected and it's been held up so much (for transphobic, beaurocratic reasons) that I won't be getting it before Trump signs his acts 😭 I'm pretty pissed abt it tbh
Good thing I moved from the south to the Midwest though...
I knew there would be some extremely harsh orders coming in, but I now seriously feel like my life is in danger. I'm doing everything I can to accelerate my plans to leave the country. I know it's not a solution for everyone or choice, but I am hoping that everyone is taking the time to evaluate their choices and options to survive. Survival is resistance.
That's a good plan, and I encourage anyone who has the financial ability either personal by saving or by using FAFSA AKA Student Loans to go to Graduate Schools Abroad for a marketable degrees in potentially gaining PR (permanent residency) to said country depending on the rules for Immigration.
Remember that for those who are going the FAFSA route, that Foreign Earned Income Tax Exclusion exist. America is one of the few countries that makes people filed taxes yearly and if you make under $126,500 per year (Single or married file separately) or $253,000 (If Married and File Jointly) then when you do taxes yearly, your loan repayments would be supposedly $0 dollars and you can ride it off until you can do a tax bomb whenever your dateline is for forgiveness depending on your loan repayment plan.
I understand not everyone can do this for numerous reasons, but if you are mentally checked out, have the capabilities of working your behind off either in another countries uni for another degree or able to get PR based off work experience and your current degree or the rare people who qualify for citizenship by ancestry or marriage then by all means take advantage of everything within your capabilities since you only have one life so do whatever you can to make yourself happy if leaving the US can be the answer for you or others
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for people of good character to do nothing.” I’ve heard this expression since I was a child 60 years ago. Yet today, it became painfully obvious how true this statement is.
And so it begins. I will say it again, I will never bow, and I will never be broken.
Trying to think of this as MLK Jr Day rather than Inauguration day, but in reality, it's both/and. May we all raise our voices to say NO to the legalization of dehumanization and oppression in all its malignant forms. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Unfortunately Project 2025 is happening full speed in hurting the LGBTQIA+ Community who are in the USA and that may lead to influence other countries globally to do things similar to other minorities of their population including to the LGBTQIA+ individuals.
I am speechless of all the Executive Orders happening on Day 1 and the dangers that we all be facing no matter what US State we are in, we have to be extremely guarded and be aware of what's happening as much as our mental health can allow to do so. We have no one but ourselves to look after so we have to know our laws and figure out a way to simply survive being ourselves in the "New America".
Really sickening on how extreme the New US Presidential administration is for their definition of supposedly only two "binary" genders existing (Hurts seeing that as Someone who is under both Transgender & Non Binary Umbrella). The LGBTQIA+ population in prison is probably gonna be more suicidal or they will be in worse situations without barley anyone caring/listening to them due to no regulation on Transgender Healthcare in prison no matter what anyone did to being locked up.
So much is going on, that I truly don't blame anyone who is losing faith in America and feeling scared, I'm nervous too as someone who's BIPOC LGBTQIA+ and don't got irl support and life just generally sucks. Really wished I have the resources to just check out of being in a Do Not Travel State and just America itself but immigration is hard + expensive even for those eligible, and finding a different degree to be marketable in seems exhausting as well.
Overall, really disappointed in what's happening in America and anyone who voted for the new administration but it's now supposedly regretting it, I don't feel sorry at all for what it's coming to all of us. Only minorities that tried to prevent it or is currently being effected that isn't apart of the leopard eat their faces team, I'm feeling sympathetic of.
I run out of Fs to give over people selling our rights, pushing progress backwards for who knows how many decades back over not understanding inflation, or unable to see the bigger picture in voting for a candidate who may not fit every box (rarely we see candidates like that in politics) but chooses to vote for someone who is just playing the game and not willing to work with us in protecting our country bylaws and etc.
Everything that could happen and may happen will be under Project 2025 and regardless of what happens in the 4 years and beyond, I will never forgive voters who made us in this situation since it's gonna be a bumpy road for all minority groups, even for people who are against the LGBTQIA+ community.
Minorities involved Disabled People, Neurodivergence, BIPOC/POC People, Immigrants, and many other groups of individuals that are considered to be a minority or under represented population.
So for everyone's sakes, we should all continue to stay informed, unite and support each another as things proceed to effect all of our livelihoods in America or worse, as mentioned in the beginning, caused other countries globally to mimic our behaviors (the country) for their citizens/people to feel as well.
For some reason I expect to have a hangover tomorrow.
I had a coworker talking about inauguration day and I went with "I can't say anything nice about that guy so I won't"
His reply was "still better than the last guy."
I love living in Indiana.
I am seriously scared for our country. It is not just trans people who will be harmed. If you aren't white and wealthy or complacent and easily used to fuel their wealth amd control, you are in danger.
Sucks on so many levels. I fiddle farted around too long to change my gender marker on my passport and am scrambling to do that now. At least my state of Nevada allows for gender marker X.
While I don’t consider myself transgender, I changed my state ID sex marker to “X” a few years ago. If anyone ever actually asks me what the “X” means, I’ll smile and say “it means none of your business”
You can still do your passport and other needed legal stuff, for some of it like passport, you just need to expedite it but having a passport is a good first step to do so sooner rather than later.
I am under the Non Binary Spectrum so I really wanted to change my gender market to X but, I didn't want to take that chance on the low chance some TSA Agents or other Countries version of TSA give me trouble if I am somehow stuck at a airport when traveling international to get to my final destination in the Oceania Area.
But not everyone thinks like that and we even got warning that some countries do not accept those with X gender marker so we be putting a target on ourselves, so I say that consider the risk in doing so and if it doesn't bother you or know for a fact any countries you want to vacation, visit or leave the US over would accept the X gender market on the passport then you should be good to go
FAIW, Iceland recognizes X markers, and the gender marker is based on self-determination. Anyone with an X passport who needs to travel to the Schengen region of Europe (most European countries) could simply enter there. From that point onward, there appears to be no passport control, unless you have something to "declare." My passport has an F. However, it was just recently my experience that when I flew from the US to Barcelona, via Reykjavik, my passport was checked in Reykjavik, but NOT in Barcelona. From Barcelona, I could then travel anywhere within the Schengen area without having to use my passport.
Thank you for your reporting, Mira and Erin! This is much of what we already expected, but it helps, emotionally, to prepare ourselves. I will be particularly interested to learn what these policies will mean for people who have already changed their documentation. In particular, I am wondering whether our having docs reflecting non-birth gender will be treated legally as "fraudulent." I am also interested in learning how foreign passports will be regarded by the US government if they do not reflect birth gender - and in particular if the passport holder was actually born in the US. Sucky times!
My #1 concern also (the passport). I am quite sure that U.S. border control can't know anything that isn't encoded in the chip or provided by separate notice (as with "wanted" lists). Countries that recognized gender-consistent passports would likely not put that into their encoded data. But of course the only way to know for sure is ask said country.
Many countries share passport identity linking data which ties subsequent passports together, linking your old and new passport information. This has been the case for decades. If you had a different name and gender marker on an old passport and travelled abroad your former identity will be stored in foreign immigration databases.
That still depends on whether the country shares this information. In Germany the federal government will not disclose that history (even under the old 1980 law, which was restrictive in requiring genital surgery, but once done it sealed previous documents. Only an appropriate court order (which international travel does not fit the definition of) could access the history. The law is written in language similar to what California uses for an updated birth certificate.
I am certainly not a lawyer and don't know other country's practices. It seems likely that they vary.
I have seen it in action. Your government can't recall your previous passport details. My friend transitioned, obtained a GRC and updated her sealed birth record in the UK in 2002. She had a new passport issued and then to her surprise when she next visited Australia, which she had visited 10 years earlier on her old passport, and they knew her previous name and sex because the two were linked. If you have previously traveled overseas on an old passport and then travel on an updated one you should assume the immigration staff can see your entire passport history on their screen. I won't be visiting the USA again for a while.
Yes a similar thing happened to me when I was trying to update my children's passports (which require the parents' "names at birth") i brought my updated birth certificate (name and gender corrected) and they told me it didn't matter that I had changed it, the only "truly valid" one was the original. It struck DEEP fear in my chest.
The rightwingers are now going full genocide on transgender human beings. I have a new BC with original date of birth, court ordered name change, driver license, passport and FAA piolts certificate. I FEAR that all that is now threatened. Very scary. Like Nazi Germany.
I am worried about this, too. My adult daughter got her name change on her BC, and we just received and sent in the docs needed to correct it to F (had to prove she had surgery). We are in a red state that already is trying to erase her. At least her passport will come back soon with the correct marker, but I hope we can still get the rest changed.
I’m anxious to see what happens with passports. I’m trans and currently live in the EU. I changed my gender marker on my passport years ago. If they rescind gender marker changes and mandate they have to reflect gender as assigned at birth, will my passport be confiscated when I come back to the US? (Unfortunately, I have to several times a year.)
I assume you're traveling on a US passport.
So, I have long considered a similar question. I hold a US passport and have claim dual citizenship in an EU country, which is still making its way through bureaucratic channels. I've only just now jumped the pond. My concern was that I might become stranded in the US if my passport were revoked by Trump 2.0. My attorneys told me that if I had remained in the US and had my only passport confiscated, I could probably approach the consulate of my 2nd EU country to request a "safe conduct" or "safe passage" pass, which functions somewhat like a one-time passport for the purpose of leaving the US and landing in my country in the EU. These passes are usually issued to citizens of the returning country under unusual circumstances. However, my attorneys felt I would qualify as well.
In your case, not knowing more about your situation, you might be able to get a safe passage pass if the US snatches your passport away. You would need to inquire with your EU country's State Dept. as to whether they could/would do that for you. FAIW, don't expect any country to recognize you as a refugee, because the US is considered a "safe" country. (!!) One exception might be Sweden, as they did process Danni Askini's asylum claim, so perhaps there is precedent.
As for myself, there was just too much uncertainty swirling around the launch of Trump 2.0. For instance, if they revoked my passport and also questioned my birthright citizenship (my having been born within 100 mi of the southern border), and if the military is being used to round up people living in the US illegally, could I somehow be swept up and placed in a (MEN's) detention center? There were just too many unanswered questions. I was ready to chance it, prepared to skip to Canada without documentation if needed. However, my entire family urged me to leave "now" while I still could. I don't know that they were wrong.
Hi Sarah,
Thanks for your reply. I still have three years of living in the EU before I can apply for citizenship. While I could get by not returning to the USA during that time, it would come with a number of difficulties in terms of commitments back in the States. I’m certainly not willing to go back if it would entail ending up in an American prison. (Especially if it would be back in Texas where I’m from!)
That being said, I recognize that I have a great deal of privilege in being able to emigrate from the states when I did.
My thoughts are with all those who for whatever reason are stuck in the US.
Removing Legal Recognition of Transgender People etc. how does all this bullcrap increase GDP - thus the living standard and financial health of people and families - of the USA? How come honest, working people are persecuted by such clowns and are forced to pay for their meals and shoes? It is not work what they do it doesn't help anyone, these politicians should go and find a job. Parasites.
Goddamn it
Going to see if I can stock up today.
On this inauguration day my wonderful spouse invited me to join her in a retreat on the north shore of Lake Superior. We've come up about half way between my home in Duluth and the Canadian border. Which way shall I turn as we end our retreat on Wednesday? We all have choices to make in these coming days.
I put my order for a passport in when he was elected and it's been held up so much (for transphobic, beaurocratic reasons) that I won't be getting it before Trump signs his acts 😭 I'm pretty pissed abt it tbh
Good thing I moved from the south to the Midwest though...