Seems to be a common theme in my life. Being abandoned.
Latest is I'm finding out how to change documents in Trinidad and Tobago because maybe I'd like to hang on to my old passport for travel to the Caribbean. The CARICOM line is shorter and maybe one day I'd like to go for an extended stay. I love the USA but my heart is in the Caribbean too.
I reached out to a LGBT rights group and they told me that name changes cannot happen on birth certificate. You have to use a stupid affidavit sworn before a JP. Gender changes on any document including passport cannot happen, period. However they are working with policy makers to fix that, but it's just not going anywhere.
What is weird though is that there is a prominently open trans woman who has been out for years, and i heard she somehow managed to change her documents. Maybe I can ask her how she did it.
Apparently the big problem is pressure from the religious establishment. They vote and the Prime Minister promised she would formulate a new gender policy but after pressure from the churches she dropped the idea.
Screw 'em. I'm gonna use my US documents exclusively. They always give me trouble going through customs anyway, and I hate the &*#^%@@ third world mentality of trying to extract a bribe to do the littlest of things, and cowtowing to the religious establishment at every turn. Reminds me of when I was glad to board a plane on a one way ticket out of there...
Just thought I would rant. I'm a big girl and I can and will press on. But it is disappointing that they are talking about brain drain yet excluding their own sons and daughters.
