Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans
Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans
The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on our rights.
ACLU has a web form for submitting comments on this document:
https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOS_FRDOC_0001-6771
The offending part of that document:
To comply with E.O. 14168, “ Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” the Department updated the form to replace the term “gender” with “sex.” The U.S. Passport conforms with the standards set by the E.O. and the International Civil Aviation Organization, which among other things determine the various fields on the passport's biographical data page. Consistent with the E.O., the revised DS-11 will request the applicant's biological sex at birth, male “M” or female “F.” Amendments to the fields and instructions (section 3) have been made to reflect this.
If you’re concerned about having your name on record, you can submit comments anonymously on the federal register website: Application For Passport (DS-11), Renewal Application (DS-82), and Replacement, name change, correction (DS-5504).
Beware: this link is running a couple of piggybacking extras that are not part of the actual server page in question. I run a whitelist firewall so I see all traffic in logs.
Edit: Tell me what to say pls. I want to be effective.
The page links to source articles, and I believe it might preload from those?
I only clicked the one link to regulations.gov. It took too long to load so I pulled the log to to see why it was not loading. About a minute later the page finally loads despite these other two being blocked. The ad label is because I still have adblock running even with my whitelist. So that link is known to one of the adblock source archives. The aws link could be anything, but it means data is filtering across Amazon servers and is therefore fingerprinted and tracked by Bezos.