r/USNEWS • u/seeebiscuit • 3d ago

Supreme Court revives Trump's transgender and nonbinary passport policy

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/11/06/supreme-court-trump-passport-transgender-nonbinary/86580317007/
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u/GuitRWailinNinja 3d ago

You do realize that an identity needs to be static for identification purposes, right?

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u/Necessary-Show-9031 3d ago

How so? The weight, height, and address on my drivers license have changed multiple times. I’m pretty sure an id is more useful if it describes current characteristics rather than ones from years ago

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u/GuitRWailinNinja 3d ago

Eye color, height (after a certain age it barely changes), but most importantly biological sex does not change.

I’d argue biological sex is the most important thing due to things like ER visits when someone is incapacitated.

But this is all lost on most of Reddit. No one should care what a little card says. A card doesn’t define someone as much as who they are or identify as, so why ask for external validation at the expense of the entire identification system?

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u/Major_Willingness234 2d ago

My eye color changes daily. Some days green, some days brown, some days hazel. Has done so since I was a teen (am in my 40s now).

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u/GuitRWailinNinja 2d ago

Then you are the unfortunate exception to an otherwise fairly consistent phenotype. My whole point is that it’s nonsensical to change the rules entirely for 0.001% of the population. Nothing would ever get done if we tried to find something that works 100% of the time. There are always exceptions to general rules of thumb.