FREEDOM TO FLY FOR TRANS PEOPLE – COMMENT-A-THON TONIGHT, DEADLINE MARCH 17

In 2022, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that nonbinary, intersex, and gender nonconforming individuals can mark X for their gender on U.S. passports, instead of requiring them to choose either M (male) or F (female). This milestone expanded the liberty of millions of Americans, as surveys and studies show.

The Trump administration is reversing this progress, threatening trans people’s ability to obtain accurate passports and creating dangerous barriers to travel, identification and fundamental rights. We have until March 17th to submit a public comment on this harmful change.

Advocates for Trans Equality is rallying supporters to flood the portals. They’ve provided a toolkit (embedded below) with guides on where to comment and how to do so effectively, along with a brief two minute video on best practices here and sample social media posts we can use to encourage others to stand up for trans folks’ freedom to fly here. They’re also hosting a webinar TONIGHT at 7PM Eastern where we can join together with other activists in a comment-a-thon! 

Sign up for tonight’s comment-a-thon here, and let’s make sure we put A4TE’s tools to work and submit our comments to protect the freedom to fly before Monday’s deadline.

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JOIN THE ORGANIZING CALL TODAY – NEW NATIONWIDE PUSH TO SAVE PUBLIC SERVICES

Every day we learn of more dedicated federal workers losing their jobs and more of the services we depend on being gutted by Trump and Musk – from veterans’ care to Social Security to hurricane and tornado forecasting to last night’s announcement of massive layoffs at the Education Department. They are taking a sledgehammer to our government so big corporations can profit off filling the gaps and they can redirect the “savings” to tax cuts for billionaires. We won’t stand for it. Federal worker labor unions led by the Federal Unionists Network, the Working Families Party, and advocates for working people like Senator Chris Murphy and Robert Reich are coming together to launch a mass nationwide campaign to stop Trump and Musk and #SaveOurServices – and they’re holding their first big organizing call tomorrow night at 8PM Eastern.

Let’s register here to join the call and the campaign!