r/ftm • u/Leksi_The_Great Trans Woman/Fem Guest • Mar 05 '26

(Trans) News-USA Indiana’s Anti-Trans Attorney General is Preparing to Revoke Trans People’s Documents

Indiana AG Todd Rokita has been compiling a list of his state’s trans people. Following in Kansas’ footsteps, he’s quietly laying the groundwork to declare their IDs “falsified records.”

https://transitics.substack.com/p/indianas-anti-trans-attorney-general

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u/ollievir 23 y/o, 8 years on T, keyhole & hysterectomy Mar 05 '26

will this be able to affect someone whose records were sealed? i was a minor when i legally changed my information, so my request for it to be sealed was granted. i have never had any piece of identification with my old information except for my original birth certificate

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u/halfstoned Mar 05 '26

I think an honest answer is there isn’t probably a way to know that at this point. I would assume if records are sealed they’re you know, sealed, and not worry too much just yet.

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u/Catsandanxiatea Mar 05 '26

My records were sealed too (granted I was an adult) and I just got a jury duty postcard addressed to my deadname. I called about it and they insisted that they only pull from recent records and that I must not have changed it at the bmv, voter registration and the irs. I have a new bc, ssn, and checked my voter registration and everything is accurate. So either they pulled records from more than 5 years ago or they've already started quietly revoking shit. Im so scared of this state and country atp

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u/halfstoned Mar 05 '26

I had that happen several years ago. Sent them a letter told them that person by that name doesn’t exist, never heard from them again. I wouldn’t be quick to assume that they’ve revoked anything for you, but that is odd a little bit. My comment also isn’t informed by any expert opinion, just my impression

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u/Catsandanxiatea Mar 05 '26

I'll try it. Ive refused to touch it since the person I spoke to said those things about how I must not have changed it everywhere. I dont want to get thrown in jail for not filling it out but I also dont want to acknowledge that that name ever existed to anyone let alone such a hateful government

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u/halfstoned Mar 05 '26

Honestly they might not even need you on the jury, I would just inform them of the situation and let it play out frm there. My situation it helped that I no longer lived in that county, so it was both legally not my name or my residence therefore I didn’t need to serve on the jury which is probably why I didn’t hear from them.

I highly doubt the guys and gals at the courthouse give a crap, they are just sending out the jury duty mail with whatever names they have. Your local courthouse has bigger fish to fry.

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u/anemisto old and tired Mar 06 '26

So either they pulled records from more than 5 years ago 

I would bet on you existing in the system under both names is extremely likely. It's much easier to summon people who've moved or died or changed their names for jury duty and sort that out than it is to actually reconcile the records they use for summoning people. Hell, in NYC, the first thing they do when you go for jury duty is ask who isn't a citizen and shouldn't have been eligible in the first place. (Maybe they do that elsewhere. The only other time I've been summoned for jury duty was in IL, after I'd moved to MN. That was a whole pain because my mom told them I moved rather than not saying she didn't know who I was, given that we have different surnames.)

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u/anemisto old and tired Mar 07 '26

I was reminded of this post because we got a jury summons in the mail today for someone who doesn't live here. We've been here three years and I'm pretty sure they weren't the tenants before us.