Judge slaps down Trump admin effort to reinstate passport marker policy targeting transgender and nonbinary people

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The Trump administration has suffered its second loss in as many months over a policy to change the rules regarding sex marker designations on U.S. passports for transgender and nonbinary people.

In late June, U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, a Joe Biden appointee, blocked the U.S. Department of State from making two significant alterations to its passport policy regarding sex markers.

"Whereas the State Department previously permitted transgender passport applicants to self-select male ('M') or female ('F') sex markers that correspond to either their gender identity or sex assigned at birth, it now requires that passports reflect only the holder's sex assigned at birth," the court explained in its initial order. "And whereas the State Department previously allowed intersex, non-binary, and gender non-conforming applicants to elect 'X' as the sex marker on their passports, it now issues passports only with an 'M' or 'F' marker."

In turn, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to dissolve the injunction and have the judge stay her own order as the government appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. On Thursday, Kobick nixed that request.

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