What would you do?
Currently living in the states and am trans on HRT. This is all a big hypothetical, and I want to acknowledge in advance that I know things aren’t great for trans ppl in the UK to say the least. So, I just got my British passport in the mail and it turns out I’ve been a dual citizen my whole life but didn’t know until a couple months ago, which feels pretty cool despite everything going on.
Anyways passport arrived two days ago with “British citizen” listed under nationality. This morning I wake up and first headlines I see are that a Republican senator from Ohio has introduced legislation to attempt to make dual citizenship illegal for US citizens where if they don’t renounce their other citizenship they’ll be viewed as having voluntarily renounced their US citizenship.
Now it’s a massive if whether this goes through or not and there would be loads of problems in terms of implementation. That said, this all feels super dystopian. If it passed, what would you do in my position? I feel like if that kind of bill passes, I don’t want to be trapped here. But maybe it’s not realistic to think that. And I do want to say, the British citizenship confirmation actually has meant a lot to me. It’s made me feel really connected to my grandma, who died when I was a really young child, and to my dad, who passed when I was 22 (I’m 27).
Thanks!
Posted Dec 3, 2025, 1:45 AM UTC