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With everything going on, as a genderqueer person that does not look like the sex they were born as. If you need to renew your drivers license, if you need to renew your passport, if you are doing anything that requires a certified copy of your birth certificate OR your social security card GET A CERTIFIED COPY OF EACH OF THESE BEFORE DOING ANYTHING ELSE.
There are people saying that their documents are being held when they go to apply for a new passport or to renew their passport. Originally this was only going to happen to folks changing/trying to change/having already changed their gender marker to X. It is now affecting genderqueer folk indiscriminately by those reporting their experiences.
I had an appointment upcoming, I called my local USPS, they said they had no information on this, and told me to call my State Department to ask them for verification.
What I do have experience with, however, is my driver's license expiring this year, and the DMV saying I am not eligible renew online. So I call and ask to get to the bottom of why. After being on hold for 20 minutes, the lady comes back to say she does not know why, she cannot see why, and that I will have to go to the DMV with my birth certificate, social security card, and my ID.
These are the same documents being held when getting passports.
Get CERTIFIED copies now.
This is not to fear monger. This is not to spread misinformation on purpose. I can only share my personal experience, and the personal experiences of others. I very well could be over reacting and I hope that I am just being paranoid. However, the Jewish people that were placed in camps were considered criminals as they were no longer considered citizens of Germany.
This administration has just told ICE to they can detain anyone they believe is not a US citizen. If you do not have these documents, this is about to be a whole lot harder to prove.
The green light has been put through to build a building in Guantanamo Bay that can house 30,000 people. If you have not read up on what ICE officers call "segregation" cells within detention centers, or who/what groups of people are commonly placed in these "segregation" cells, please educate yourself on it. I shared photos of a post that spoke on these as well as went over why this is in fact believed to be the start of the American Holocaust.
I am not saying this is exactly what they are doing. Please take this post with a grain of salt. I am simply seeing a pattern and a logical set of steps that this administration COULD use to remove those humans they deem 'undesirable'.
Just, as an added precaution during everything going on. Please get copies of these documents. Now.
If you need help on figuring out how to do so, I will try my best to help you.