Passport Rules Eased for Transgender People

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The next thing we need to get changed is to reinstate the old Social Security policy of allowing the gender marker to be changed without surgery.

@Brandi. Your comments are aggressive, invasive and indicative of Borderline Personality Disorder and show a lack of empathy for others, disdain for interpersonal boundaries as well as an unquestioned allegiance to rules imposed by authority (the SOCs were created by non-trans people) to the point of demonizing other peoples' beliefs and experience. I am a trans therapist and have worked with many trans clients. Generalizing your personal experience and clearly internalized transphobic beliefs to impose them upon others of differing backgrounds, belief systems and life experience would seem to stem from personal insecurities. Trans people should be allowed to decide for themselves who and what they are subject neither to your personal prejudices nor those of the psychiatric/psychological professions. Incidentally the primary signifier of biological sex, to extend your absurd example, would not be SRS but XX or XY (etc.) sex chromosomes. Why not be inclusive rather than prejudiced?

@ SteveMD2 While agree there are those who feel they were born in the wrong body and that someone people nature has misaligned their bodies and brains, these people in my opinion would be Transsexuals and not your run of the mill transgender. First I feel I should tell you that I feel there is a huge difference between a person who is a Transsexual and a person who includes themselves as Transgendered. The transsexual are as I've stated above whereas a transgender are those who feel they can live as the opposite sex without having surgery so they can fulfill some fantasy, for in my opinion those that can't part with their male genital don't have a female brain or a female gender identity now this wouldn't include those that haven't had surgery simple because of cost but yet want it only those that refuse to have surgery. I'm glad your friend the MD was able to find peace and happiness. But the people who try to game the system, twist it to suite them are the ones I have a problem with.

Brandi, the people hurting "the community" are people like you who are saying that trans has nothing to do with the inherent issue of a gender that does not conform to a physical body and has everything to do with having money and means to get surgery. I would say you should be ashamed, but people like you never are.

Well Brandi, funny how pre-judging works. Honestly, my friend, dispite her lack of SRS, despite the fact that she had to stop taking hormones because of her parkinsons, despite the fact that she transitioned reallly late in life, she look better than most (i'm being serious here) of the post-ops I know.

Sweet brandi girl - you arre anything but sweet. I wonder if you are just another variant of a church based hater or what. I do realize that some gays have a real hard problem with trans people. and that is a fucking shame. I know a number of trans people, have had lunch with a group where I was the only str8 and original sex person while there were 3 trans people and one beginning to trans. Trans is a real issue. I know an MD specialist who was suicidal in her mid years, and is now so much more happier as a woman. I've met one of the children she fathered. Trans people are just people who had a cruel trick of nature played on them, in a sense somewhat similar to gay people So Brandi - the question is - are you misinformed, fearful in some way, or just a hater. We've got enough hate in this world without yours. And thantks for reminding me I have to get a pix printed - of me kissing on the cheek one of those trans people. Sri I can't post it here.

@ Julie while I'm sure your friend who transitioned late in life is a wonderful friend and a true inspiration it is a fact that we live in a very visual society and those who transition late in life don;t transition as well years of living as a male and of having testosterone flowing their their bodies have left unerasable male markers on them and thus they have a harder time of passing which leads to them having harder lives. I don't say this to be mean or harsh only to state a fact. Likewise I would argue that any who refuse GRS or who don't feel the need for GRS aren't GID at all and do not have a female gender identity or a female brain, for how can one claim to be born in the wrong body and be

Dysphoric over their bodies yet not want to remove the most significant gender marker there is...it doesn't add up to a female brain nor a female gender Identity. It does however sounds more like a male living out a fantasy. Julie you state that WPATH is not compromised under this ruling. It remains there to help prevent inappropriate surgeries. This ruling just passes along a compassion to those who deserve to have their privacy preserved. Julie you know as well as I do that the entire trannie nation will be running to their post office to fill out their passport application so they can get their badge of authenticity, they will misuse this ruling to and bend the ruling to suit their own needs, that in itself hurts the standards in my opinion.

@ sweetbrandigirl2004, Wow, you need to change your addy to "venomousbrandigirl2004". Listen to Drew and the rest, Who the hell are you to tell someone what they are and are not! What a presumptive bitch and what ugly things you have to say about anyone that isn't you or took another path than you. Who the hell needs the far right when your around to spew such venom. Take a few Valium and go to some other board where they argue this nonsense ad nauseam for decades while the world passes you by.