Did they really ask for seven forms of ID? Exactly seven? In addition to your passport, you said they just lost it, did they say this in the letter? Did what they wrote say "7 ID's" or "seven ID's"? Not the same thing. Government-issued IDs right? Dual citizens only have six, they wanted your library card, your bus pass, like what are we talking about here? Did they give any examples of what you could provide? What do you propose they're trying to do, break a tie between the IDs of each gender (not kidding)? And you don't have a doctor. Or health insurance. But you're trans. Do you take no hormones then? You know what, as for the specific, very personal details of your sex change, I ask nothing.

> "I wish you the best of luck getting rid of that passport. Good riddance."

I wrote that. I thought of editing what I wrote for clarity. It doesn't mean what you think it means. Not good riddance of the passport. Good riddance of you as a citizen. Well I guess both. It's not pejorative, it's win-win. You don't want to have that passport, and I don't want to stick up for you if you won't stick up for the team. I'd like to but it's too much liability, I have to help only people who would in principle help others too. Evidently you don't care about that. And you wrote a letter telling them you're not sending anything more? And you're insulting a senator for not writing back, publicly? Did you vote for that senator from abroad or did you vote against him, did you not vote? Do you think the State Department will be more helpful now?

How can I interpret what you said in the best possible light, like where to begin? Just make two pieces of the puzzle fit together. I generally believe people's stories regardless of whether they're lying. I think it's good for people to be believed, even if it's by one person, just for a little while, just to know someone can trust them. Later I reevaluate and maybe change my mind.

I want to believe. Help me.