Keep Your Fingers Crossed

"Your paper's please" send shivers up our spine because of Trump's Executive Order denying us of our true gender on our passports.

The US stopped allowing passport gender marker changes. Here are some of the people affected

Transgender people have reported having requests to change the gender marker on their passports denied

By: AP via Scripps News

Feb 08, 2025

The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Virginia, where they live.

Getting a passport for Mellow, who is transgender, was urgent.

In an executive order Trump signed the night before, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender. The order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender. The framing is in line with many conservatives' views but at odds with major medical groups and policies under former President Joe Biden.

Her family wants Mellow to be able to leave the country if things became unbearable for transgender people in the U.S. as the federal government increasingly moves not to recognize them.

Fear! That what Trump has created, fear of our government. Fear that we have to flee the land of our birth!

The State Department quickly stopped issuing travel documents with the “X” gender marker preferred by many nonbinary people, who don’t identify as strictly male or female. The department also stopped allowing people to change the gender listed on their passport or get new ones that reflect their gender rather than their sex assigned at birth.

Applications that had already been submitted seeking gender marker changes were put on hold. The State Department also replaced its webpage with information for “LGBTQI+” travelers to just “LGB,” removing any reference to transgender or intersex people.

For me, ,my passport expires mid-summer will I be able to renew it?

AP News wrote, "Trump policies on gender-affirming care and passports for transgender people challenged in court"

A group of transgender people sued in U.S. District Court in Boston over an order that led to the halting of allowing gender markers to be changed on passports and barring the use of the “X” marker used by many nonbinary people.

The plaintiffs, represented by the ACLU, say the abrupt policy change last month did not comply with a requirement for a 60-day notice and comment period — and that it discriminates based on sex and, in some cases, transgender status.

The order in question was one that Trump signed his first day back in office that said the government would recognize only people’s sex and not their gender — and defined sex as unchangeable. That position is at odds with what the American Medical Association and other mainstream medical groups say.

I get the feelings more and more that Trump is going to thumb his nose at the court orders!

Trump administration ordered to restore all frozen federal spending

Reuters

By Brendan Pierson

February 10, 2025

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to fully comply with a previous order lifting its broad freeze on federal spending, after a group of 23 Democratic state attorneys general last week said that some funds remained frozen.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Providence, Rhode Island, ruled that, opens new tab all funding must be restored at least until he can hold a hearing on the states' motion for a longer-term order.

The Trump administration had told states that it believed the order did not apply to certain environmental and infrastructure spending, and that some payments were delayed for "operational and administrative reasons."

However, McConnell said that his order had been "clear and unambiguous" in applying to all funding frozen in response to sweeping executive orders by President Donald Trump.

Updated 3:26PM the Reuters article.