People can now choose their s*x marker in their Social Security records, the Social Security Administration announced Wednesday. It's the latest step in the Biden administration's effort to be more inclusive of transgender Americans.
While people will still need to show documentation to prove their identity, they will no longer need to provide medical or legal records of their s*x designation, the agency said.
"The Social Security Administration's Equity Action Plan includes a commitment to decrease administrative burdens and ensure people who identify as gender diverse or transgender have options in the Social Security number card application process," said Acting Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi.
The move is part of the Biden administration's push to make it easier for transgender people to access government services and to increase their visibility in data. Changing their designation in Social Security records will improve their experience accessing retirement benefits, obtaining health care and applying for jobs, according to a White House fact sheet issued in March.
As part of the effort, the Department of State began allowing US citizens to select an "X" as their gender marker on their passport applications in April. The Department of Homeland Security implemented an option for "another gender" for the TSA PreCheck application process in July.
Accepting self-identified s*x designation
The Social Security Administration will accept people's self-identified s*x designation of either male or female even if it differs from the s*x listed on other identity documents, such as passports or state-issued driver's licenses.
Those who update their s*x in Social Security's records will have to apply for a replacement card. Social Security cards do not include s*x designation.
The agency is exploring updating its policy and systems to allow an "X" designation, but people cannot currently include a nonbinary or unspecified s*x marker.
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The modern LGBT movement, regardless of your moral compass, is a glimpse of the ideal in a dystopian capitalist technocracy.
They signify the quintessential consumer, one who's identity is derived from the brands, movies, fashion, gay clubs etc. in a symbiotic relationship with the capitalist system, as opposed to previous organic identities derived from Tradition.
A trans person, for instance, is a being who lives, day to day, on a cocktail of hormone pills & ointments, whose life is punctuated suddenly by a series of violent surgical interventions, all designed to make of them a man or woman. This is the end of our civilizational narrative concerning the sexes (and indeed all identity).
Traditional, organic identities have been replaced by synthetic, disaggregated attributes (hormone level, facial structure, sexual organ etc.)
Now that man as such has been replaced in his war-making capacity by the genderless professional soldier (drone) & woman in her child-bearing capacity is to be replaced by the artificial womb, what are we left with but disembodied attributes?
This is in line with the nature of unfettered Capitalism. To unfettered capitalism, all forms of tradition and and identity are limits to commodification. It's nature is to take limits and turn them into barriers to overcome. Trying to maintain tradition or national identity within unfettered capitalism is like trying to force a river backwards.
Any anti capitalist movement needs to not only address the material aspects of capitalism like wealth inequality and exploitation, but also the meta narrative of hyper modernity itself, which has been brought forth by Capitalism.
Snapshots:
archive.org
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ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
transgender people:
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
passport applications :
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
ghostarchive.org (click to archive)
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Holy shit snappy exactly what i was thinking!
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