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The US stopped allowing passport gender marker changes. Here are some of the people affected
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and JOHN HANNA
Updated 11:22 AM EST, February 8, 2025
The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Virginia, where they live.
Getting a passport for Mellow, who is transgender, was urgent.
In an executive order Trump signed the night before, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender. The order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender. The framing is in line with many conservatives’ views but at odds with major medical groups and policies under former President Joe Biden.
Her family wants Mellow to be able to leave the country if things became unbearable for transgender people in the U.S. as the federal government increasingly moves not to recognize them. ...
Knowing about the policy change, Mellow checked the box for “male,” even though that’s at odds with her life and her state-issued driver’s license. ...
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