Changing My Recorded Gender With The Department Of Defense
fter my surgery and later issuance of a new birth certificate last November, I wanted to apply to the Department of the Navy (DON) to change my recorded gender. The Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) keeps track of servicemembers and retirees genders, so I wanted, for gender affirmation and DOD acknowledgement, my gender reflected in my Department of Defense (DOD) records. There is no gender marker on military identification cards, so it’s not an issue of being outed by any gender marker on it. But, it still was important to me — every other government database records my gender as female, and the DOD showing me as male just bothered me. After making some preliminary telephone calls to the Department of the Navy, I was connected to Division 31D of the Navy Personnel Command (NAVPERS 31D) I was then told what the requirements are for changing one’s recorded gender
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Community significance
“Changing My Recorded Gender With The Department Of Defense” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to transgender identity and history, while also engaging public policy and governance. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.
Historical significance
As a publication record from 2013 at Transadvocate.com, “Changing My Recorded Gender With The Department Of Defense” provides dated evidence of how transgender identity and history was being argued in relation to public policy and governance. Comparing it with earlier and later records can reveal changes in vocabulary, evidence, and emphasis.
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The article’s strongest policy connection is administrative classification and identity documents. It links that institutional frame to transgender identity and history and public policy and governance, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.
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Themes
- 1Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community100%
- 2Public policy and governanceTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life65%
- 3Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life22%
- 4Technology, data, and platformsTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication22%
- 5Community and organizingTheme family: Identity, culture, and community11%
- 6History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication11%
Academic framing
- 1100%
Policy framing
- 1100%
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How “Transgender identity and history” appears across the Collective corpus
This article was published during the theme’s highest-presence year in the registered corpus (2013).
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Frequently co-occurring concepts
- Community and organizing531
- Law and civil rights468
- Culture, identity, and representation320
- Education and youth308
- Media, rhetoric, and discourse260
- Healthcare and medicine248
- Violence, safety, and dehumanization238
- History, archives, and memory216
- Public policy and governance206
- Feminism and gender politics198
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- Public accommodations and facilities177
- Civil rights and anti-discrimination173
- Criminal justice and public safety131
- Elections and democratic governance100
- Research ethics and data governance78
- Labor and employment policy52
- Administrative classification and identity documents39
- Housing and social services38
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RT @AutumnSandeen: Via @transadvocate: Changing My Recorded Gender With The Department Of Defense http://t.co/Dlm8yFKmJY #trans #lgbtqia
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Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Law and civil rights, Community and organizing.
Gwen Smith
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