Quote from: jill610 on July 28, 2018, 04:07:20 AM
I have a hard time drawing conclusions from an isolated event. Are there more examples? If her passport was issued with a gender different than what is in her birth certificate and the criteria for issuing that passport at the time it was issued was not met, then it was correctly withdrawn. Frustrating yes but not sure why that's being construed as a systematic policy against trans women. Many of us have had our first application rejected because the paperwork was not exactly correct, and issued without problem once corrected.
I successfully changed my passport and my global entry within the last three months.
Right,
If we don't know why they suddenly figured out that they screwed up by issuing the passport, there is no way to say its because she's trans.
I've read of a few other cases. From what I recall there were issues with the doctor letters not being just exactly perfect and they were not ones that had previously been approved. One might argue that those requirements are anti trans by being so rigid because who else would they apply to? Doesn't do any good to argue, they aren't going to make an exception. They own the hoops and want you to jump through them in perfect order, so that's what you do if you want a passport.
Not panicking Cindy, I used the wrong form. It's not obvious that you would essentially need to get a totally new passport in order to change the gender, especially when you only do a regular renewal for the name change. Had I run across this thread two days before I did I would have potentially done it right the first time. Other than the time I spent filling out the wrong form, it's not costing me any more than if I did it right the first time. I don't have any travel plans so it's not that big of a deal to me.
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