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I don't imagine Social Security going along with this, they are an independent agency under the Social Security Act who's head can only be fired per cause. They are not subject to executive orders.
Everything I can find suggests they *are* subject to executive orders but that there are *also* legislative requirements that the president can't overrule. How to interpret gender is not one of those legislative requirements.
You're also overlooking that Social Security will be run by a Trump appointee appointed for their loyalty. Frank Bisignano is a long time Trump loyalist and donated hundreds of thousands to Trump's re-election. He's being appointed for a reason.
who's head can only be fired per cause.
You're forgetting that Republicans tried to have Alejandro Mayorkas removed from office by claiming he didn't do his job and that was without having all three branches of government on their side.
But that doesn't really matter because Frank Bisignano was chosen because he's willing to carry out Trump's agenda.
Just because there is a gender change doesn't mean they quickly know why!
Prior to 2022, those updating their sex with the SSA were required to submit a letter from a doctor stating that they'd medically transitioned as well as a number of other documents.
Do they manually have to go through each casefile to see if it was a gender change for a trans person, an error, a typo, or a number of things? This would be logistically unfeasible.
No, because they don't have to go through it manually. If that data is stored in any sort of database, they can simply query for the required criteria. The overwhelming majority of adults who update their sex with SSA do so because they're trans. Mistakes regarding someone's ASAB are *incredibly* rare for adults and the Trump administration *doesn't care* if they hurt those people. But, again, the reason for the change is recorded and you can filter for that easily.
To give a sense for how long it would take, I sometimes run queries on datasets with a >500 million rows, I can get results under 30 seconds depending on how complex the query is and how much data I'm trying to return.
Comment by JessicaPink703 at 22/01/2025 at 02:13 UTC
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I have addressed this and why I disagree in other replies to comments on this post, encourage you to read those.