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Is there any point in trying to get my documents changed?
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Depends on your current and birth state. Some states still allow gender marker changes without evidence of surgery or clerical error. My birth state required surgery and I recently got that, so I'm working on changing mine. Problem will be Social Security which now doesn't allow changes under any circumstances and Passport which may or may not use the SSA inconsistency to deny changes or invalidate the passport altogether as fraudulent. We'll just have to wait and see how it's implemented now that it's no longer allowed without birth certificate changes. I'm not hopeful, but as long as my state continues to allow changes for the enhanced driver's license/real ID, at least I'll be able to travel domestically for now.
Social security stopped allowing changes when trump. They allowed it before and presumably will again sometime after.
From my understanding social security gender is the official gender on federal documents. And there will be issues if you have mismatched genders on federal documents.
EDLs are issued by states, the realid law leaves it to the states to determine what info is correct. Real states will issue EDLs with correct gender markers.