The contested Substack article claimed a new State Department rule would let ICE target anyone suspected of being trans by revoking visas over 'misrepresentation'.
The actual State Department policy change only updated the Diversity Visa Lottery to require passport scans and changed 'gender' to 'sex' on forms to match biological sex at birth.
ACLU staff attorney Melita Picasso says the visa rule change targets fraudulent third-party lottery entries, not trans people specifically.
The requirement to list biological sex at birth on visa forms has been State Department policy since Trump's executive order over a year ago, not a new rule.
A State Department memo from February 2025 instructs consular officers to note discrepancies between passport gender and biological sex but does not mandate visa denial.
Davis asserts there is no evidence ICE has a policy or memo authorizing detention based on someone 'looking trans,' contradicting the viral claim.
ICE stopped collecting detention data on trans people last year to comply with Trump's executive orders, making exact numbers hard to find.
A Wikipedia article cited in online debates claimed 170 US citizens have been detained by ICE since Trump took office, not deported.
Davis argues ICE's material purpose is to stabilize social order by targeting undocumented immigrant workers, not to enact abstract racial hatred.
There are about 15 million undocumented immigrants and about 3 million trans people in the US, making immigrants a much larger target for ICE.
Beyond your filters
Frankel says traditional machine learning algorithms still outperform most LLMs for predictive tasks on tabular data.
Willison coined the term 'prompt injection' but regrets it, as it misleadingly suggests a fix akin to SQL injection, which doesn't exist.
Trump posted a 'civilizational' threat to Iran, stating 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if the regime does not change, framing the conflict as a war against Persian civilization itself.