This isn't a thread for what safeguards there should be or if a person should be able to get a passport in the opposite sex. This is just a question that I had no idea where to put and I'm hoping someone (or more probably several someones as it's about a repeatable scenario) can answer. Here because there are a lot of very knowledgeable about trans people present.
Assuming someone has got a passport stating their sex as something other than they were born with, what happens when they go abroad? I imagine in the UK they get waved through but what about other countries? Particularly ones with heightened security or who disagree with the concept of trans. Does not passing make people question it?
And by the same token what happens if your passport is aligned with your sex but you present as the other? Again, does it get questioned?
Are there places you just can't go? Do you end up being strip searched (not nice for anyone!)? How about people with a mix of boobs and a dick?
I'm genuinely trying to understand the practicalities here and would be grateful if people could tell me more, both policy and experienced.
Many thanks.