Transgender passports. Judge blocks Trump measure
It’s a step that could be significant in supporting the rights of LGBTQIA+ Americans. A federal judge, Julia Kobick, blocked a Trump administration policy that sought to prevent transgender and non-binary individuals from being issued passports in the United States that reflected their gender identities (rather than the sex listed on their birth certificates).
According to Reuters , the judge considered that the measure could be unconstitutional . The decision expands on a previous order, which had been issued in April by the same judge, which established that the US State Department was prevented from applying the policy in a specific case, which involved only six transgender people.
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“The plaintiffs have been personally harmed by the government — they are no longer eligible to obtain a passport consistent with their gender identity — because of the sex they were assigned at birth,” Judge Julia Kobick, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, said in the April ruling. At the time, according to The New York Times , the ruling applied only to the six individuals who had sued the Trump administration and did not apply to a seventh plaintiff, who unlike the others already had a valid passport with a sex corresponding to his or her gender identity.
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