On Tuesday, a federal judge extended the order blocking a Trump administration requirement for the State Department.
Judge Julia E. Kobick extended the order preventing the enforcement of a policy that would require all identification documents to indicate the sex one was assigned at birth. In April, a previous ruling ordered the State Department to allow “only six trans and nonbinary plaintiffs named in a federal lawsuit to obtain passports with sex designations matching their gender identity while the case proceeds,” The Hill reported.
The lawsuit accuses the policy, pushed by President Donald Trump’s administration, of being “motivated by impermissible animus.”
Representing the plaintiffs are the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Massachusetts, and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP. In April, they asked the court to “certify a class of people adversely affected by the passport policy and extend the preliminary injunction to those who are currently impacted or may be impacted in the future. This includes transgender, non-binary, and intersex Americans seeking documents such as passports.
In her ruling, Kobick wrote that the plaintiffs, the six initial plaintiffs as well as the new designated class, “face the same injury: they cannot obtain a passport with a sex designation that aligns with their gender identity.”
This comes after the State Department suspended American applications to update identification documents that change gender identity, occurring in January shortly after Trump’s executive order stating that the United States only recognizes two genders.
“The order, which Trump signed during his first hours back in office, directs the departments of State and Homeland Security and the Office of Personnel Management to require government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, to reflect an individual’s sex at birth over their gender identity. The State Department previously allowed U.S. passport holders to self-select their sex designations, including an “unspecified” gender marker denoted by the letter X,” The Hill writes.
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