Passport Victory: Court Blocks Trump-Era Ban on Gender-Affirming IDs for Transgender Americans
Passport Victory: Court Blocks Trump-Era Ban on Gender-Affirming IDs for Transgender Americans In a landmark legal victory, a federal judge has issued a sweeping injunction, halting a Trump-era policy that forced transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans to carry passports reflecting their sex assigned at birth. This decision grants temporary relief to an estimated thousands of individuals, allowing them to obtain passports that align with their gender identity or utilize a neutral “X” marker. The ruling expands upon a previous preliminary…