Carl Charles, an attorney with queer rights organization Lambda Legal, said the risk for trans people of Trump’s executive order goes beyond scuttled travel plans. Charles said he’s heard reports of passport offices confiscating birth certificates, marriage licenses, and state IDs.
“In this instance, it is really the government that is setting up circumstances where trans people will be subjected to more violence and discrimination on the basis of not having identity documents that accurately reflect who they are,” he said.
State Sen. Scott Wiener, who represents San Francisco, called Trump’s executive order “dehumanizing.”
“The absolute cruelty of what they’re doing, it’s hard to even get your head around it,” Wiener said in an interview Friday, adding that his office had also received calls from constituents having issues updating their passports. “I never thought our country would go back to the days when we had classes of people who were not considered full citizens anymore, but that’s what this administration is doing toward trans people.”
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