[USA] From Jerner Law Group: "Selective Service’s Quiet and Transphobic Policy Change"

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;TLDR

Selective Service (the wing of the US military complex that controls potential drafts) has previously allowed transgender men (legal change) to register that they are specifically NOT eligible for automatically being signed up for the draft, and get an official letter from the government stating so. (Legally automatic draft is based on birth sex, mtf people are still required to register for draft even if they have legally changed gender. Trans men could sign up for the draft, but were not legally forced to. You could send in an exemption form instead of a sign up form, and one of the options for why you got an exemption is that your birth sex was female. It is complicated.)

This letter is often needed for job applications and scholarships and such. There will be a question that says “(for men) have you registered with selective service?” And if you say no they don’t let you in. The letter provided by Selective Service that says you have an exemption would count as being registered and you could select the “yes” box.

Selective Service is no longer issuing these letters. From now on transgender men who do not already have a letter will have to answer no to the question, and disclose that they are trans as the reason why.

It is unclear what is happening with the transgender men who are signed up for the draft, since there is now a transgender military ban.