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Anticipating a passport change, Ash Lazarus Orr, a West Virginia advocate for transgender people, sent in an expedited application to change the gender marker on his passport from “F” to “M ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed the State Department on Wednesday to suspend all passport applications seeking to change a sex marker and all applications requesting an “X” sex marker ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to freeze applications in the passport pipeline with “X” selected as the gender identifier, according to internal communication ...
In order to change the gender marker, one only needs to fill out a new drivers license/ID card application reflecting the correct information. [77] The state of Virginia had policies similar to those of Massachusetts, requiring gender-affirming surgery (GAS) for a birth certificate change, but not for a driver's license change.
Kentucky permits post-operative transgender people to amend their sex on their birth certificates. [39] A letter from the doctor stating that gender affirming surgery has been performed can be sent directly to the Department of Vital Statistics in Frankfort, prior to this, a Court Order was required for the gender change for a Kentucky born person.
Non-binary, intersex and other gender non-conforming Americans were able afterward to use the marker — or change their existing status — without providing further documentation.
Sex can be changed where there is an error, of course, but not when there is a later attempt to change psychological orientation of the patient and including such surgery as goes with it." [10] As of March 2018, surgery is a prerequisite for changing one's gender marker on birth certificates issued by 25 states.
The State Department has suspended processing passport applications seeking the gender marker of “X” and will only process and issue passports for people identifying as male or female ...