Onyx

In the United States the average native-born citizen can prove their definitive citizenship in terms of eligibility for work through either a birth certificate or a passport. Birth certificates are legally owned and issued by the government of the state you are born in.

I was born in Texas. Texas has banned trans people from changing our birth certificates to match our name and gender. Texas will put me on a list if I reveal I am trans in any legal way, including having ever applied to change my gender marker. I cannot change my birth certificate.

This means the only way I can prove my eligibility for work is with my passport. Without my passport, I can’t legally apply for work.

That is why the executive order banning trans people from changing our passports to match our gender identity is such a huge problem. It’s not boo hoo I can’t leave the country to go on vacation, it’s stripping me of my labor rights and daring me to work in a sweat shop if I want to survive.

And say I did want to cross the border because oh, I don’t know, fleeing to seek asylum in a new country suddenly becomes very important—wouldn’t it be a good idea to have a passport that matches my identification to show local authorities, so they don’t deport me back to America?

"But I don't...this doesn't make sense."

"No," Piper agreed. "Stop thinking about it. Just feel."

"I hate that." "

OH MY GODDHSJFDHF INJECT THIS SCENE ITS LIKE CRACK, this is like THE pipabeth scene oh my FUCKFH the whole war and love WHEN ANNABETH IS THE DAUGHTER OF A WAR GODDESS AND PIPER A DAUGHTER OF THE GODDESS OF LOVE. In another life they're together and in love bc I still love percabeth. Also it's canon Piper thinks Annabeth is the bravest person she knows and that she's already so beautiful she didn't need the makeover Aphrodite offered to her. SAVE ME PIPABETH!!

ice is beyond the pale of evil but we already knew that. I want to know why people reporting on this and stories like it wont say "trans men"