Recognition (USA): Difference between revisions

| One of the first schools to cover transgender health care under its student health insurance, and makes it easy to access these benefits. Campus has gender-inclusive athletic facilities and more than 120 gender-inclusive bathrooms.<ref name="Beemyn2012" />

| LGBT center has its own two-story building. Student culture is accepting of openly transgender people. Student health service is knowledgeable about trans health issues.<ref name="Beemyn2012" />

| Nondiscrimination policy includes "gender identity/expression." Has trans focused events. Lets students be listed by preferred name. Works to help other schools be transgender inclusive.<ref name="Beemyn2012" />

| Allows gender-neutral housing.<ref name="College" /> Has had a Q Center since 2005, which "welcomes students, staff, and faculty who are transgender". The University plans that in 2016 it will "broaden gender-neutral options for housing to include all of the new residence halls on west campus as well as Haggett Hall, which has provided gender-neutral bathrooms and living quarters for several years. ... UW staff is working on giving students an easy option to change gender on University forms."<ref>Julie Garner, "True to self." ''Columns: The University of Washington Alumni Magazine'', September 10, 2015. [https://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns-magazine/september-2015/features/transgender/ https://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns-magazine/september-2015/features/transgender/]</ref>

| "True Name" initiative enables customers to have their chosen name on the their cards<ref name="Mastercard" />

Public employment agencies (the Department of Labor, the "unemployment agency") would be not in this section, but in the section for state government and the federal government.

Federal and state government.

In the USA, official documentation such as driver's licenses, passports, and birth certificates all show an M or an F only. Only one person in the USA has managed to get a different gender marker than M or F, who was an adult intersex person who asked for theirs to say "hermaphrodite."<ref name="Litigation">"Litigation." ''Intersex and Genderqueer Recognition.'' http://www.intersexrecognition.org/litigation.html</ref> Currently, even changing one's gender marker from M to F or vice versa is difficult. Some states require proof of surgery (meaning a letter from the surgeon, or from a doctor who has examined the person) in order to change the gender marker on the identification, some states don't, and some states don't allow the gender marker to be changed at all.

Social Security cards are one of the few government-issued IDs that do not list gender on them. However, the Social Security Administration keeps a record of gender. Current policy holds that surgery is not required to change that gender record. Instead, the Administration will accept as proof of a new gender any of: a full-validity U.S. passport, a state birth certificate showing the new gender, a court order ordering legal recognition of the new gender, or a doctor's letter saying that the person "has had appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition to the new gender."<ref><em>See</em> Social Security Administration, <em>Changing Numident Data for Reasons Other Than Name Change</em>, [https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0110212200 Records Maintenance § 10212.200(B)(2)] (as of Mar. 19, 2015). The physician's certificate accepted by the Administration is the same as that accepted by the Department of State for permanently changing one's passport gender. <em>Compare</em> <em>id.</em> <em>with</em> [http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/143160.pdf#page=3 7 U.S. Dep't of State, Foreign Affairs Manual § 1300 appx. M, at 3-4].</ref>

Marriage certificates at the City of Cambridge in Massachusetts ask for a binary sex, but by special permission, this can be left blank, so the marriage certificate has no gender on it.<ref>http://practicalandrogyny.tumblr.com/post/7025100121/gender-free-marriage-certificate-from-cambridge</ref>

Transgender disenfranchisement is the practice of creating or upholding barriers that keep transgender people from voting. One way this happens is by requiring that people need to show ID in order to vote. That makes problems for transgender people who have mismatches on the gender markers on their ID. For nonbinary people, in particular, they may be limited to forms of ID that don't show a gender marker, such as Social Security cards (which some states don't accept as ID) or military retiree ID cards (which some people don't have and perhaps can't get). Some states let people prove their identity by showing a utility bill, which doesn't show gender, assuming the bill doesn't address the customer by a gendered title. See [[Wikipedia:Transgender disenfranchisement in the United States]] for more about this transgender rights issue.

However, even with coverage, many insurance companies will misgender clients on ID cards, websites, and in promotional mailings (such as those offering a discount for getting a certain medical procedure).

* [http://www.intersexrecognition.org/home.html Intersex &amp; Genderqueer Recognition Project] "is the only legal organization in the United States addressing the right of non-binary adults to gender-self-identify on legal documents. [...] IGRP's goal is to allow non-binary adults to self-identify as something other than male or female on their driver’s license, passport, and other government issued identification."