{"id":1705285,"date":"2022-10-21T06:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1705285"},"modified":"2022-10-21T08:19:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:19:09","slug":"social-security-to-allow-people-to-select-their-gender-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-security-to-allow-people-to-select-their-gender-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security to Allow People to Select Their &#8220;Gender Identity&#8221;"},"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\">20<\/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-to-allow-people-to-select-their-gender-identity%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=1705285&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/cf221d52-491a-412b-8b63-96414c8b07ec.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" id=\"isPasted\">The Social Security Administration announced this week that people will now be able to select the sex that most aligns with their \u201cgender identity\u201d in records going forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/news\/press\/releases\/2022\/#10-2022-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> from the SSA, the policy was created to be more inclusive to \u201ctransgender\u201d and \u201cgender diverse\u201d Americans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\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 said Acting Commissioner Kijakazi in a statement. \u201cThis new policy allows people to self-select their sex in our records without needing to provide documentation of their sex designation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Those who choose to update their sex marker in Social Security\u2019s records will be required to apply for a replacement SSN card. They will be required to show documentation to prove their identity, but will not need to provide medical documentation to show their sex designation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe agency will accept the applicant\u2019s self-identified sex designation of either male or female, even if it is different from the sex designation shown on identity documents, such as a passport or state-issued driver\u2019s license or identity card. SSN cards do not include sex markers,\u201d the press release added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">SSA added that the agency is \u201cexploring\u201d a future system to support an \u201cX\u201d gender marker who those who do not identify as female or male.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The agency\u2019s decision follows measures enacted by other federal agencies under the Biden administration. Earlier this year, the Department of State announced that Americans could use an \u201cX\u201d gender marker on passports going forward. The TSA announced that it would offer the \u201cX\u201d option for Trusted Traveler applications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In June, Townhall <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/madelineleesman\/2022\/06\/13\/new-study-estimates-1-6-million-americans-are-transgender-n2608632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> a study published by UCLA\u2019s Williams Institute claimed that 0.5 percent of all American adults, 1.3 million people, and about 300,000 youth ages 13 to 17, identify as transgender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This report shows trans people live everywhere and their needs and concerns need to be listened to and be addressed in the public policy landscape,&#8221; Jody L. Herman, one of the study&#8217;s authors, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/new-study-estimates-16-million-us-identify-transgender-2022-06-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> at the time the study came out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\nTrending on Townhall Video\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Security Administration announced this week that people will now be able to select the sex that most aligns with their \u201cgender identity\u201d in records going forward.\u00a0 According<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1705288,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1705285","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=1705285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}