“The prime directive is bullshit in Star Trek and it’s bullshit in gender. If you have the power to minimize suffering you have a moral obligation to exercise it.”
We didn’t need a study or cis researchers to learn that; you could’ve just asked us. If trans people had the same resources as these researchers, we could have given you these results years ago.
A State Department spokesperson confirmed that they will deny or delay passport issuance unless and until an applicant provides "sufficient” evidence of their “binary, biological sex at birth.”