Comment on FR Doc # 2026-08932

I oppose this rule as it infringes on the second amendment right that all independent american adults are entitled to. The vast majority of transgender women do not have a history of violent crime or gun crime. The same as any other minority group. I’m a 25 year old transgender woman who began transition 7 years ago when I became a legal adult. I have safely owned and used guns at ranges for years. Starting as a child when my father, a Navy veteran of the gulf war, took me regularly to the range for target practice. I have never been involved in gun crime or self harmed myself. I have dozens of transgender friends and they are all just as safe as I am. All with clean backgrounds. This law effectively denies them the ability to purchase firearms. In states where its legal for transgender women to change the gender marker on their ID, they are made much safer when using the restroom or being pulled over by police officers unfamiliar with transgender women. Trans women without a history of violence or crime should be able to decide where they use the restroom and what clerks, bartenders, and officers of the law see on their ID. Many transgender people do not look, talk, or act like their birth sex to the average member of the public. When this is ambiguous or confusing, the reactions are not uncommonly physically dangerous. Trans women who have been denied the ability to possess gender markers that agree with their presentation have been subject to violence, murder, and sexual assault. Almost every trans woman knows another who’s been put through these consequences if hasn’t lived through it herself. These are same decisions one makes about their own safety. To deny transgender people this judgement puts many needlessly in danger. Or in this case, makes them choose between safety and their constitutional rights. The current rule has not resulted in excess gun crime, violence, or death. This change only serves to strip trans citizens of their rights and their safety.