OPM Releases "Initial Guidance" to Enact Trump's Elimination of Trans People from Government Recognition and to Instate a Federal Bathroom Ban (Item k) by Jan 31.

I am a federal employee. I am in my federal employee union, I pay my dues, and I stay in correspondence with my local.

I am also a trans woman. Up until now, this has been entirely irrelevant to my time at work. I'm not gonna say where or what agency, because there aren't many of us working in the federal workforce and I could get doxxed with relative ease.

I'm not going to go into the implications for how this OPM memorandum will mess up the TSA and many other agencies where people who actually live in reality have to interpret these gorilla-typed orders– that's beyond my scope of understanding. But this memo, like all the trans-eliminationist executive orders, want to both erase the language to describe trans people from the government and also erase trans people entirely. Hence all the wordy back-flipping to ban trans people from their gender's (oh I'm sorry, "Sex") "intimate spaces" without saying things simply.

I sent a message to my union asking for help and guidance. Maybe my union will help me, maybe they won't. In either case, this is a direct assault on my human dignity and I'm not going to comply.