In about a month, I will have to spend a week in Georgia for my “day job.”

It used to be that I’d relish such a trip, but in 2025, it requires a bit more forethought. For example, I worry that, if I took my passport for identification, versus my REAL ID-enabled driver’s license, I could see the latter confiscated, leaving me without a valid identification source.

With the Trump administration’s insistence that there are only men and women, and this is an immutable fact from birth, we have seen an ongoing struggle over identification documents. On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security “to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry

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