January 28, 2011
State Department Issues Amended Policy Guidelines on Passport Sex Marker Changes

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In response to concerns raised by TLDEF and other organizations and individuals, the U.S. State Department today published amended policy guidelines for changing the sex marker on passports.

Among other things, the new policy guidelines:

    * allow you to submit a doctor's letter from any licensed doctor, eliminating the burdensome physician specialty requirements;

I was just celebrating this. I had to jump through additional hoops because I had a surgeon's letter and not a letter from an endo or an internist or one of the other "approved" physician designations. They made me get a new letter. This unreasonable demand added weeks to the whole process and caused me a great deal of stress.

Idiots.

I also notice that the model doctor's letter got rid of the misspelled word (yay) but still has a slash where I would have put a hyphen. (I know, picky, picky. But the misspelling really made them look bad.)