{"id":1703909,"date":"2022-10-20T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703909"},"modified":"2022-10-20T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T16:35:06","slug":"social-security-administration-announces-americans-can-choose-their-gender-on-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-security-administration-announces-americans-can-choose-their-gender-on-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Administration Announces Americans Can Choose Their Gender On Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsocial-security-administration-announces-americans-can-choose-their-gender-on-forms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced Wednesday that Americans can now self-select their gender when filling out records.<\/p>\n<p>The SSA has implemented the change and the new option is available now, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/news\/press\/releases\/2022\/#10-2022-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> from the agency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Social Security Administration\u2019s Equity Action Plan includes a commitment to decrease administrative burdens and ensure people who identify as gender diverse or transgender have options in the Social Security Number card application process,\u201d Acting Commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new policy allows people to self-select their sex in our records without needing to provide documentation of their sex designation,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The new process notes that a person who updates their gender or \u201csex marker\u201d in SSA records will need to apply for a replacement Social Security card. A document will be required to prove identity, but no medical or legal proof will be required to determine a person\u2019s gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s policy will now accept a person identifying as either male or female on forms, even if the gender is different from the designation assigned on other documents such as a passport or driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted that the agency does not currently include the option to select non-binary or unspecified as an option. Instead, the agency is \u201cexploring\u201d possible future policy changes to support an \u201cX\u201d designation.<\/p>\n<p>The updated policy follows the announcement of the plans to do so in March. Kijakazi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/news\/press\/releases\/2022\/#3-2022-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a> at the time that the agency \u201cis committed to reducing barriers and ensuring the fair treatment of the LGBTQ+ community by updating our procedures for Social Security number records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The move is one of several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-admin-rolls-out-gender-neutral-passports-americans-can-now-identify-as-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gender policy changes<\/a> implemented since President Joe Biden entered office. In June 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the State Department would add another \u201cgender marker\u201d and allow people to choose whether they were marked male or female regardless of medical documentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost immediately, we will be updating our procedures to allow applicants to self-select their gender as \u2018M\u2019 or \u2018F\u2019 and will no longer require medical certification if an applicant\u2019s self-selected gender does not match the gender on their other citizenship or identity documents,\u201d Blinken\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/proposing-changes-to-the-departments-policies-on-gender-on-u-s-passports-and-consular-reports-of-birth-abroad\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/study-estimated-1-4-nonbinary-lgbtq-adults-in-u-s-might-request-gender-x-on-passports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that a study by UCLA\u2019s School of Law Williams Institute estimated how many \u201cnonbinary LGBTQ adults\u201d living in the U.S. \u201cmight request\u201d a \u201cGender-X\u201d marking on their U.S. passports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu\/publications\/x-gender-markers-passports\/\">noted<\/a>, \u201cWe estimate that 1.4% of the nonbinary LGBTQ population in the U.S., or 16,700 people, may request passports with an X gender marker each year. This estimate is based upon current demand for X gender markers on driver\u2019s licenses in states which allow such an option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Similar changes have been made at other government agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD now allows homeless transgender people to <a href=\"https:\/\/files.hudexchange.info\/resources\/documents\/Equal-Access-for-Transgender-People-Supporting-Inclusive-Housing-and-Shelters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">access shelters<\/a> formerly reserved for the opposite sex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced Wednesday that Americans can now self-select their gender when filling out records. The SSA has implemented the change and the new option is available now, according to a statement from the agency. \u201cThe Social Security Administration\u2019s Equity Action Plan includes a commitment to decrease administrative burdens and ensure people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1703915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}