I get your point and I certainly don’t trust some media to give me all the facts. But there are still plenty of outlets who would have published about this if it happened at any systemic level. That’s as close as you can get to proving a negative.
There are many other bigoted things that Trump did do. We should probably discuss that, instead of panickingly telling people to stop changing their registered gender. That’s terrible advice given the very limited evidence.
I appreciate the question, but this is actually quite different from what is claimed in the screenshot.
The state department will stop changing the gender registration on new passports to “X”, at least for now. This doesn’t cause anyone to lose their documents. It also doesn’t affect anyone changing their registration with the state or local government, which is much more important.
There are many reasons to be frightened. It just doesn’t help to add fictional stories (or at best secondhand anecdotes) to that. Resistance against oppression requires accurate information about what happens, not wild speculation about things that “could have happened”.
Telling everyone to stop changing their gender registration is wild and would warrant for more evidence than “I heard from a friend”. That’s terrible advice and you can’t just shrug that off by saying you don’t know the truth.
If this was real it would have affected thousands of people and enough media outlets would have picked it up. This social media post isn’t even first hand experience, it’s what they allegedly heard from someone else.
Stop issuing “x” passports isn’t the same as confiscating existing documents, let alone for everyone who requests any change (as this post claims). Also this only applies to the federal government.
I’m disappointed that you’re so indifferent about the truth. Leaving this misinformation to spread does real damage to trans people, who might now become too afraid to change their gender marker. Even when, as many have pointed out, there was no change of policy and this is mostly handled at the state level.
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Tbh Star Trek also has a fair share of inconsistencies and flawless characters. But any argument about which is “better” is pointless.