self-declare

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ declare.

Verb

self-declare (third-person singular simple present self-declares, present participle self-declaring, simple past and past participle self-declared)

1. To declare for oneself.
   • 2025 June 18, Samantha Riedel, “In Trans Legal Victory, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Denying Passport Gender Changes”, in Them‎:

     The State Department and current Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expressly directed under the injunction to “to process and issue passports [...] consistent with the State Department’s policy as of January 19, 2025,” and to allow passport applicants to self-declare their gender even if that information is “different from the sex assigned to those individuals under the [Trump] Passport Policy.”