government approved and endorsed insanity under rule of law, writ large... what if a country doesn't endorse insanity and won't accept X? then what??
Posted on 07/02/2021 8:23:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Biden administration has announced that the State Department will allow people to choose their gender identity on passports, even if it contradicts their biological sex. It's also looking to add an X marker for those who identify as nonbinary.
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced Wednesday that the State Department will update “our procedures to allow applicants to self-select their gender as ‘M’ or ‘F’ and will no longer require medical certification if an applicant’s self-selected gender does not match the gender on their other citizenship or identity documents.”
“The Department has begun moving towards adding a gender marker for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons applying for a passport or [Consular Report of Birth Abroad],” continued Blinken.
“We are evaluating the best approach to achieve this goal. The process of adding a gender marker for non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming persons to these documents is technologically complex and will take time for extensive systems updates.”
The ACLU, which campaigned for the change, released a statement on Wednesday supporting the Biden administration's decision.
Arli Christian, an ACLU campaign strategist, said the announcement was “an important first step in realizing a whole-of-government policy for accurate IDs.”
“Improved access to accurate passports will have such a profound impact on the lives of trans, intersex, and non-binary folks across the country,” Christian stated.
“Now people will be able to fill out a passport application and indicate M, F, or X — whichever is most appropriate for them. Despite a hateful wave of anti-trans legislation this year, trans, non-binary, and intersex people know who we are and we need recognition of who we are — not permission.”
The change came partly in response to the legal efforts of Dana Zzyym, a U.S. Navy Veteran who identifies as nonbinary and intersex and has been seeking a passport that reflects that identity.
According to court documents, Zzyym was born with both male and female genitalia, having been raised as a male but briefly identifying as female while an adult.
For its part, the State Department had defended its binary system for passports by arguing that it ensured the accuracy and reliability, helped identify individuals ineligible for passports, helped make passport data useful for other agencies, there not being a medical consensus on how to determine if someone was intersex, and that creating a third designation for sex, such as an “X” mark for the gender category, was not feasible.
In May 2020, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruled that three of the five reasons “lacked record support,” leaving the reasons of it helping identify individuals ineligible for passports and it helping to make passport data useful for other agencies intact.
“The State Department acknowledges that some individuals are born neither male nor female. Forcing these individuals to pick a gender thus injects inaccuracy into the data,” stated the panel.
“A chef might label a jar of salt a jar of sugar, but the label does not make the salt any sweeter. Nor does requiring intersex people to mark ‘male’ or ‘female’ on an application make the passport any more accurate.”
However, because the circuit panel did conclude that two of the reason were valid, they sent the case back down to the district court, albeit with the order that the State Department “reconsider Zzyym’s application for an intersex passport.”
Ex-American?
the bravery......
Possibly some foreign countries will not think this is such a great idea, and will not allow those who think they are “X” gender to enter their borders.
Doesn’t this pretty much take a legal document and turn it into a pile of delusional fiction?
APB: be on the lookout for a non-binary.
> “our procedures to allow applicants to self-select their gender as ‘M’ or ‘F’ ... <
Then why bother with the question at all?
“Not Sure”
We can now all identify as "i'M FuXed"
All the Sheep will go for the X
HOW does Biden FORCE other countries to accept such data???
X?
What about the other freak letters?
This is discrimination!
I was thinking the same thing. Hopefully anyone with an X will be not allowed to enter any civilized country.
They should just remove the question from everything. If they really want to know, they can turn you over and look.
I think we should all choose “X”. That would really screw up their plans. LOLOL.
Some countries may be thankful for the heads-up. "Oh, you're an 'X'? Entry denied!"
Its like neck tattoos. Its useful when fools identify themselves up-front.
government approved and endorsed insanity under rule of law, writ large... what if a country doesn't endorse insanity and won't accept X? then what??
Here’s hoping some countries (The Visegrad Group?) refuse those ‘X’ retards entry into their countries.
Sorry, but you cannot change your identity. You are who you are from the moment of conception.
You can change the public face you show to others, sometimes erroneously called “identity.”
You can have a surgeon mutilate your face, but that doesn’t change your identity.
You cannot change your sex. You can change your external appearance, and that is sometimes erroneously called “identity.”
You can have sex in a way that the apparatus weren’t designed for, but that doesn’t change your identity.
“Identifying as” means “deluding self.”
Biden administration = Pig Excrement
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