

There are two passport renewal processing offices, once you mail your forms out. Regular renewal is in Texas, but if you do expedited (I think like $60 more or something like that) it goes to Philadelphia to be processed.
I’m not saying that if you’re trans you will never have success with the regular renewal, but I paid for express before Trump was sworn in just to be safe and it worked out for me.
Good luck! I’ve never dealt with that, hope it goes smoothly for you