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More educated people do tend to be more open minded about gender identity issues and also compassionate towards younger people with those feelings, but sorry, that's a far cry from the idiotic charge that "lefties" love to "trans" kids. That's absurd. You should be ashamed of yourself for trying to sell such inflammatory garbage.

Sorry if I didn't communicate my point well enough. As everyone should know, different immigration offices often have totally different enforcement policies, and reports of how things were in the past, even the recent past can be helpful, but you don't really know until you try things yourself.

That's logical and good news if true, but things being how they are. what will really matter for people what the situation is NOW for people doing this at their specific immigration office.

R.I.P. Edmund White Edmund White, who broke ground in gay literature, has died : NPR www.npr.org/2025/06/04/nx-s1-5423297/edmund-white-obituary

Those kids learned their bigotry from their parents.

Explanation. Haters gonna hate.

Thanks very much for all that detail. What's most surprising is how long it took for your passport to get from the embassy to you. Why??? If it was sent from state on May 24 considering the weekend it was presumably at the embassy by the 27th. That means it took about nine days to get from the embassy to you. Maybe the embassy is short staffed now. Normally 2 to 4 days max for domestic mail Another question. On the day it arrived did Thai Post call you to announce it or did it just arrive as a regular letter?

The history did start as purely political without a corporate sponsor in sight. Now it really depends on where you are In the world. It's still mostly political in many countries and indeed even illegal.

I'm feeling that your homophobia is a year round condition.

Stick, new series clearly going for the Ted Lasso comedy sports show hit space and it will probably work. This time it's golf and you don't need to like golf to like this show. Starring the very talented Owen Wilson. With an old comedian favorite of mine Marc Maron. If you liked Ted Lasso and who didn't, you'll want to give Stick a try.

This "president" is such a corrupt, immoral, and disgusting person that he even makes Elon Musk look almost decent in comparison.

Oh, one more obvious and very relevant information. For those who got notifications from the State Department about their passport processing (Thai expats only). Approximately how many days from when the email notification says it was sent to the embassy until you got evidence that it was sent to you (by email from the embassy if they do that) or it actually arriving?

But now that I know my new passport package is headed to or already in Bangkok, I have some possible issues. First question -- In your experience within the last year or two, has the Bangkok embassy sent you an email to tell you when they have mailed the package back to your address? Currently that could only be with a Thai Post courier envelope. Second question -- For passport processing issues is the Consular Contact Form on the embassy website the only way to contract the embassy? Or is there a specific email for passport processing or even a phone number? My case -- some possible weirdness with my Thai post purchase of courier envelope. So logging into my Thai Post account I of course still have confirmation that I bought and paid for an envelope. It was required to send email proof of this to the embassy with the passport package. So I have the order number. HOWEVER, Could just be bad design but currently on Thai Post website it doesn't look as if the envelope has been shipped to the embassy. It might mean (hopefully) that the current screen is about the actual use of the envelope from the embassy to me. There is now a tracking number related to the order. It's not made clear if that tracking number is about the envelope being shipped to the embassy or the envelope with package being mailed to me. The embassy website indicates that the latter tracking number will be sent to me in a separate email. I did try to track with the number that shows on my order history at Thai Post but got not found. An obvious explanation is that I'm very premature in checking, but there is enough weirdness / confusing info as stated about that I have concerns. I assume (hopefully) that the embassy would contact me when they receive the new passport IF they never received the courier envelope. Any feedback / recent experiences with similar appreciated.

Update: I was concerned that given the staff cuts at the State Department and also as we're getting into more peak traveling season in the U.S. that the long reported really fast turn around times for renewal from Thailand may have changed. Well so far so good. So people can consider this a fresh report that seems to indictate that these passports from abroad are getting priority treatment even though we can't buy expedited service from abroad. Specifically -- 24 days from my passport package arriving at the Bangkok embassy to an email from the State Department indicating the new passport package is being sent back.

We're not sending our best people.