• lembas@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I’m so fucking scared. They’ve inhibited our movement by fucking with passports, they’ve defined us as dishonest and dishonorable in the EO kick us out of the military, they’ve codified the notion that our gender identity constitutes sexual deviance and poses a threat to children, they’ve attacked proven life-saving care, with a focus on children and an impact on adults.

    and now they’re trying to book-burn us out of existence.

    this is systematic dehumanization, the track record of which is grim.

    There’s just straight up not enough of us to do this on our own.

    If people don’t start standing up for us, we’re fucked.

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        8 months ago

        non-binary people had been getting “X“ instead of M or F on their passport. The Trump administration will no longer allow those passports to be issued

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          8 months ago

          Seems to be more than that, one person was outright refused any passport, even male, and were threatened with arrest if they asked any more questions. All paperwork (birth certificate etc) was kept by the office in LA.

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          8 months ago

          They confiscated it, wouldn’t give it back and were threatening to arrest her. There are also reports of trans people that were renewing their passports by mail and told they wouldn’t be getting them back.

          • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            Ugh.

            You just know if it was someone sadly following the new requirements, it would have been a very apologetic taking of it and that would be the end, even if traumatic.

            When they threaten to arrest them, they’re in on it.