Judges pauses Trump policy restricting passport choices for transgender people, finding it’s rooted in ‘irrational prejudice’

A Massachusetts’ federal judge temporarily stopped the Trump administration’s passport policy on Friday, withdrawing the ability to transform the “X” marker for transgender people and non -binary people for their travel documents.

Baiden appointment US District District Judge Julia E -Cobak believes that a group of transgender and non -binary people who prosecute the administration in February will be successful with arguments that they had a constitutional right to protect a policy with a far less clear stimulus than anti -LGBT+ Animes.

He sought the administration’s passport policies, which arises from one The executive order of January To formally recognize the government to only two extraordinary sexes, men and women, “is part of the integrated and fast rollback of pre -acquired rights and reservations for transgender Americans, suggesting that these challenged measures are based on irrational prejudice about fellow citizens.”

Kobk also argued by the government in the January order that the new sexual policy would protect women’s safety in single sex places such as rooms.

He wrote, “The sex on a person’s passport has nothing to do with the dignity, safety or fitness of another person.”

In the executive order, signed the first day, when Trump took power, the president accused the transgender and non -binary people of trying to attack women “by depriving them of their honor, safety and well -being, which has a” influence not only on women but the entire American system. “

Medical and psychological organizations retain the mainstream like the American Medical Association The concept of sex and gender that is above the unintentional varieties of men and women Adding transgender, intersection, and non -binary individuals.

The Friday decision applies to six defendants in this regard, especially rather than across the country.

The plaintiff, who brought a lawsuit with the US citizen Liberties Union, argued that the passport policy was preventing them from traveling internationally and obtaining permanent documents. He cited past incidents of harassment by US airport officials, including searching an unpleasant strip, while traveling with documents that show sexually similar markers.

Free The White House and the State Department have contacted the comments.

Prior to the Trump administration, the State Department has allowed individuals to change their sexual marks in some cases since the 1990s, and by 2021, after several years of legalism, the first person in the United States received a non -binary “X” passport.

The Passport -related Trump administration’s policies are part of a major pressure to identify and eliminate transgender and other gender non -confirmed people across the government, including special security housing for the US military and federal prisons, including special security housing.