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UPDATES - March 19, 2025
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ALERT: save trans passports COMMENT WINDOW IS CLOSED
The U.S. State Department has proposed three (3) separate policy changes to U.S. passport policy. These changes would deny accurate passports for transgender Americans.
The Public Comment Period is CLOSED
Read Proposed Passport POLICY CHANGE 1
Read Proposed POLICY CHANGE 2
Read Proposed POLICY CHANGE 3
Find out more…
Why are passports with correct name and gender identity important?
(From our partners @ TransOhio)
Transgender Americans—like all people—deserve accurate identity and travel documents. In fact, these legal documents are often necessary just to go about daily life free from harassment, discrimination, or violence.
The current administration unilaterally changed the rules and guidance on U.S. Passports, forbidding transgender, nonbinary, intersex, and Two-Spirit Americans from correcting their sex designation for the first time in American history. There were no clear guidelines before the year 2009; but in 2010, the U.S. State Department updated the policy to explicitly allow transgender people to obtain a U.S. passport that reflected their gender identity. In 2021, the policy was updated again to allow all applicants to self-select their sex designation with no need for further documentation. Under the newest guidelines—a result of an executive order, not policy change or new law—trans people are forced to carry U.S. Passports with the wrong sex marker.
The United States’ refusal to recognize transgender people is an erasure of their identity and an cold lack of concern for their unique needs and humanity.
Now is our time to comment on the proposed new guidelines--before it becomes official policy. CLICK THE BUTTON ABOVE!
HEARING ALERT!
Senate Bill 1: "Enact Advance Higher Education Act"
- House Workforce & Higher Ed Committee
- Monday, March 19 @ 9 am
- RM 017, Ohio Statehouse
- No public testimony will be heard
- Scheduled for Vote
- Hearing Notice
- Statehouse Map
This may be our last shot to STOP SB 1 from becoming state law.
What is Senate Bill 1?
Well, this is it folks. If the committee votes SB 1 through in the morning, it will likely be voted on during the House Session in the afternoon.
Read Senate Bill 1
Senate Bill 1 Detailed Synopsis
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Check out Honesty for Ohio Education’s website for more information on SB 1.
Follow H4OE on Facebook for upcoming calls-to-action.
Click on the link for the Committee above and call them. Tell them:
- Our schools and our students need diversity, equity, and inclusion offices to support ALL students on campus
- Faculty deserve bargaining rights and tenure. Students and the state BENEFIT from their workers’ rights.
- Words like diversity, equity, and inclusion, climate change, and marriage are NOT “controversial topics” that require state monitoring of classroom discussions.
- Academic freedom free from state influence is one of the backbones of Ohio’s economy and the lifeblood of a stable, free, and democratic society
- This bill will ABSOLUTELY chill free speech on college campuses and lead to a brain drain in Ohio.
