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The State Department deletes transgender travel consultations

The State Department deletes transgender travel consultations

Screenshot web site Travel.state.gov on February 3 2025

US State Department has completely deleted information for transgender persons with its Page of International Travels.

The International Travel Division on the Web Site, which was previously intended for LGBTQI+travelers, is now only denoted by LGB travelers

“LGB travelers can face special problems abroad,” the web site reads. “Laws and attitudes in some countries can affect the safety and ease of travel. Many countries do not recognize same -sex marriages.

“Many countries also recognize only sexual markers of male and female passports and do not have IT -systems in entrance ports that can take other sex markers,” -adds a page, a single reference to what transgender or bad persons, possibly They received “X” markers on their passports.

The page also warns LGB travelers about their behavior abroad.

“About 70 countries are still considered consensus by same-sex relations,” the statement said. “In some of these countries, people involved in a same sexual relationship can threaten severe punishment.”

Since last month, President Donald Trump has issued many executive orders seeking to break LGBTK visibility and Erase transgender rights or protection By refusing to recognize any gender identity that exceeds the person of a man or woman, and this does not agree with the appointed sex of a person at birth.

One of these orders claims that US policy is only to recognize gender as binary and birth. He returns a policy that has allowed transgender, poor or intersectors to get “X” markers on their passports.

LGBTK defenders monitoring federal web sites reported that some government agencies have removed Any links to transgender identity and hidden or deleted pages concerning the LGBTQ community.



As reported The Washington PostCenters of control and prevention of contents that relate to transgender people and gender identity from their web site to fulfill the directive from HR management.

HIV testing pages for transgender people and information about behaviors related to LGBTK’s youth behavior have been removed. In addition, the MPOX vaccine is recommended for LGBTK people who may be at risk of contamination-bul-bidding, removed from the page.

WITH Post It was reported that the agency’s employees were sent by emails to contact them with scientific journals to return the manuscripts that have been accepted but not yet published unless they adhere to Trump’s enforcement order on “gender ideology.”

According to the report, CDC staff have been given a list of at least 20 words or phrases used as a “guide” to determine whether to remove such material, including “gender”, “transgender”, “pregnant person”, “pregnant people” , “LGBT”, “Transexual”, “Nonar”, “Appointed by a Man at Birth”, “Biologically Men”, “Biologically Women”, and pronouns like “he/she/they/them”.

Employees were allegedly instructed to eliminate all links to the “inclusion” or the practice of DEI, as well as to delete pronouns from e -mail signatures.

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