Judge Blocks Anti-Trans Order On Passport Sex Markers

The Associated Press reports:

A federal judge expanded a ruling Tuesday that blocked the Trump administration from enacting policy changes to sex markers on passports for many transgender and nonbinary Americans.

In an executive order signed in January, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender. The order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender.

U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick granted a motion to apply her earlier ruling to people who want a passport different than the male/female sex designation they were given at birth and those who want an X designation.

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US District Judge Julia Kobick has just extended the scope of an April injunction that initially affected six individuals to a nationwide order blocking the Trump administration from refusing passports that reflect transgender and nonbinary gender identities.

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