Some of the girls have been traveling to Mexico or Canada for the less expensive hormones and drugs. Perfectly legal in the U.S. by prescription. Not always for transgender even under off label prescription. Reports are coming in also about doctors getting skittish about treating transgender not knowing how far Trump and his team will go in banning or outlaw trans everything? If one has a doctor stick with him or her as a new doctor may not want to get involved with anyone who is transgender. The girls who don’t have all their legal Ids lined up or those in states like Okla where birth certificates can’t be amended, some of them are afraid of crossing the borders now. Serious harassment info being shared by those who tried.
Norway and Sweden, along with other European countries, have updated their travel advisories for the U.S., advising citizens, particularly transgender and non-binary individuals, to exercise caution and contact the U.S. embassy before traveling due to potential entry issues. Norway's advisory now warns the U.S. visa system (including ESTA) offers only two gender designations—male or female—travelers whose current gender identity differs from their birth-assigned gender may face additional scrutiny. They may be turned back at the point of entry.
Be extra cautious joining any rally, signing onto any petitions, drawing attention to one's self. Again, unless all Ids are lined up the way one wants such as M from birth to driver's license and passport or F from birth to DL and Passport. do not get involved in any protests if all your Ids don't line up. Not worth losing your passport, DL, and other Ids one has worked so hard to acquire. Stealth is great at this time. Be the Black Operations of transgender support, work and give support in stealth.
Hugs People
Barb
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Thanks for the advice
I’m stuck with an Oklahoma birth certificate and will have to settle for just a replacement passport for now.
On the plus side, I’m updating my New Mexico documents.
Gillian Cairns
Documents
Right...
There have been multiple reports of problems with updated documents. Recently, a US trans woman living in Portugal went to her embassy to renew her passport. Security turned up, took her to a private room, and confiscated her passport and all of her supporting documents. If you are a US national, trans, and choose to travel...
In my support work role, my advice to trans folk wanting to travel to the USA is "Don't". With the football World Cup, the Olympics and World Pride coming up, the first being shared with Mexico and the last being in DC, I anticipate a lot of nastiness.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/2025/03/07/transgender-...
Dozens of Lawsuits Have Been Filed
There is a whole lot of info here about passports. The one outstanding suggestion is DO NOT update a passport or apply for a passport at this time. They believe this will all turn around in the courts so wait.
https://19thnews.org/2025/03/safe-travel-trans-americans-pas...
One judge has already put the brakes on Trump's Transgender Exec Order. She wrote he was denying a class of people their rights because of who they are. She was adamant transgender are a designated class of people. Trump and the Federal Government must agree transgender are a designated class of people. They picked out the one single group of people, transgender, to punish and deny rights. As expected Trump's legal team immediately filed an appeal.
Hugs People
Barb
Hang tough it's going to be awhile for all this to get washed through the courts.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Keep your head down and hope for the best
This is the time for people to protest. This is the time for people to stand up and be seen instead of sneaking back into the shadows and hoping they do not get noticed. Yeah keep your head down and hope for the best. The Republicans and Conservatives want you to do so. This is so they can take even more rights away and make it easier for others to see trans people as not human.
Your forms of ID are correct for now. How long is it until they come to your home and take them away from you? Do not downplay that question because right now they are not giving people due process in court. Right now they are deporting people who have “Green Cards”, the legal right to remain indefinitely in the United States, because Trump and his cronies disagree with their poltical views. Right not they are saying that if the President does it then it cannot be illegal.
This is not about politics. This is about human rights. The Repubicans and Conservatives are against human rights. I can dsiagree with someone about politics but not about human rights and that party and movement is against human rights. It does not matter if someone did not vote for Trump. If they voted Republican down ticket then they voted against human rights. The Republican Party is the party of Trump and the Conservative Movement is behind what trump is doing. This is a hard truth that people do not want to hear and they do not want to acknowledge.
People need to see how serious this is right now. People need to know their is power in numbers. People need to stand up and be seen. People need to worry about their brothers and sisters, and even though I an not Christian I believe in what Christ said, everyone is my brother and sister. Using sealth right now is be selfish and only worrying about yourself. The more time they do this the harder it is going to be to resist them because it will become normalized.
Perhaps provocative
But we all know there are people on here who support Agent Orange. They appear to be the ones keeping their heads down.
No, I'm not asking them to come out and justify it, as I try to be polite. I am simply wondering HOW, in their own minds, they justify it. How they square a genocidal attack on this site's main community while still coming here to enjoy our work. A small part of me hopes they're learning something, that they might wake up to real humanity, but the rest of me replies, "Nah. Pigs; wings"
It remains
incongruous at best. (sigh)
Love, Andrea Lena
I will go one further
Anyone who supports the Republican Party is also keeping their heads down, or worse, they say how much they hate what Trump is doing. They say it is not the party. They are wrong. It is the party now. They cannot claim to be against the agenda when they vote for Representatives and Senators who support him and let him have his agenda. They cannot claim that when the party platform will be better called the Trump Manifesto.
The Republican Party is the party of Trump. The members of Congress are supporting him. They voted a drunk to be the Sect. of Defense, a vaccine deiner who thinks fluorine is bad for you and raw milk is good for you to be head of HHS. A climate change denier and former reality TV star as Sect of Transportation. Also, someone who did not know that their degree was not a teaching one to be Sect. of Education. They cheer on an unelected billionaire who was, in their words, "an illegal alien" destroying our government. They love it when he closes Social Security offices and do not let people use the phone anymore to get the benefits which they earned. They stay silent when Trump talks about annexing Canada and taking Greenland away from Denmark. They love it when Trump is destroying the trust our allies have in us.
Yes, that is a long list. The sad thing about that list is it is just off the top of my head and does not come close to covering and the damage and chaos Trump is causing.
In the words of Martin Niemoller……..
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
It becomes more and more obvious that we are headed down a slippery slope in this country. More and more there are indications that Trump and his cronies have learned from the lessons of history as their actions become indicative of despots and dictators. Police and ICE agents are snatching legal residents of this country off the streets without due process - all while hiding behind masks. Are we seeing an American Krystal Nacht?
The Trump administration uses the prejudice of the uneducated masses against immigrants and transgender citizens as a smoke screen to hide their bigger power grabs, rounding up people in secret and shipping them outside the country to El Salvadoran prisons without due process of law. How long before they start disappearing US citizens who oppose their actions? Who can be sure they haven’t already as the government has invoked the State Secrets Act.
Trump is using the instruments of the US government to vindictively go after anyone who he feels has “wronged him” or opposes him, showing how petty he is. Showing himself to be the childhood bully that he has always been. He is using the FCC to go after media companies that have done nothing more than report on his actions. He is using the Department of Education and other methods to go after universities and academics who have championed equal rights and free speech. He is actively pursuing actions against law firms who have represented his opponents or hired those who have investigated him. He is threatening to withhold federal funding to any organization which does not simply roll over and kiss his ass - even going so far as to go after European companies doing business with US embassies in Europe!
And all of this while polls show that US citizens are opposed to a President flaunting court orders by nearly 70% - yet when polled about whether Trump should continue to deport people even now, nearly two-thirds of Republicans are in favor of him doing so. Are they simply too stupid to understand that this is against a court order? Or do they not care because they haven’t come for me?
Yes, we must be careful - but if we don’t stand up against evil, how long before they come for us……..
And no one will be left to speak out for us.
D. Eden
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus