State Department refused to renew transgender women’s passports

Some transgender US passport holders stated that the State Department refused to renew their documents, even after the applicants had already indicated their gender as female in previously approved passports.

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At the end of June, Danny Askini, executive director of the advocacy group of the League for Gender Justice, tweeted that she was denied a passport renewal in the United States and asked to "prove" her American citizenship, as well as provide evidence of a gender transition, writes Splinter News. This is despite the fact that for 20 years Danni had a passport that said she was a woman, O'Hara reports. Askini changed her gender in 1998 at the age of 16.

“There is no doubt that this was a deliberate action by the State Department to suppress the recognition of my gender,” Askini said, saying she fled to Sweden because of threats of violence. The transgender woman was able to obtain a temporary passport and arrived safely in Stockholm.

The second case highlighted in the report is a study by Janus Rose, a technology researcher in New York. Rose said she has had a passport indicating her gender as female since November. But when she moved to legally change her name, the US Passport Administration retroactively rescinded the gender change that had been authorized in 2017.

July 25 Rose tweeted that the Passport Control Department refused to renew her passport with the correct name and gender until she sent a new doctor's record of a sex change.

“Essentially, the government insists that the doctor's letter - written in the same language as the hundreds of other letters my clinic provides to transgender patients - does not meet the requirements for changing the gender details on the passport. I have a feeling we’ll see more of this kind of control soon.”

O'Hara said that the State Department did not respond to the question of why an already approved gender marker should be recalled.

Askini believes that she has been the object of political attention.

“I believe that the Trump administration or someone at the Passport Authority in Seattle has made me a political target and politicized the passport process,” she responded to O'Hara. “Their actions and statements are NOT consistent with the actual code pertaining to transgender people.”

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