Transgender people sue Trump administration over new passport policy eliminating 'X' gender marker

A radical of transgender radical is challenging the Trump administration's caller argumentation that prevents the issuing of passports with enactment designations that bash not lucifer an applicant's biologic enactment astatine birth.

Seven radical represented by the American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit claiming the argumentation violates privateness and First Amendment rights. In 2022, the State Department allowed passport applicants to prime M, F oregon X for sex. 

"The plaintiffs successful this lawsuit person had their lives disrupted by a chaotic argumentation intelligibly motivated by animus that serves zero nationalist interest," said Sruti Swaminathan, unit lawyer for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. 

"Our clients request to question for work, schoolhouse and family, and forcing them to transportation documents that straight contradict what they cognize astir themselves to beryllium existent — oregon withhold those documents altogether — is simply a blatant effort to interruption their privateness and contradict them their state to beryllium themselves."

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters arsenic helium signs enforcement orders successful the Oval Office of the White House Jan. 31, 2025, successful Washington.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The regularisation came aft President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid promoting the "biological truth."

The order, "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," declares that the U.S. volition admit lone 2 sexes — antheral and pistillate — based connected immutable biologic characteristics. 

It prohibits the usage of sex individuality successful ineligible and administrative contexts and mandates that national agencies, including those overseeing housing, prisons and education, adhere to this explanation erstwhile enforcing laws and issuing regulations. 

The bid directs changes to government-issued recognition documents, bans the promotion of "gender ideology" successful national programs, rescinds erstwhile enforcement actions that promoted sex individuality inclusion and instructs national agencies to destruct guidance oregon regulations that struggle with the caller policy.

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A suitcase, COVID vaccination paper and passport. (RichLegg)

It mandated the request that government-issued recognition documents "accurately reflect" the holder’s sex, defined arsenic "male" oregon "female."

In a connection released by the ACLU, Reid Solomon-Lane, 1 of the plaintiffs, said he's lived his full big beingness arsenic a man. 

"Everyone successful my idiosyncratic and nonrecreational beingness knows maine arsenic a man, and immoderate alien connected the thoroughfare who encountered maine would presumption maine arsenic a man," Solomon-Lane said. "Now, arsenic a joined begetter of three, Trump’s enforcement bid and the ensuing passport argumentation person threatened that beingness of information and ease. 

"If my passport were to bespeak a enactment designation that is inconsistent with who I am, I would beryllium forcibly outed each clip I utilized my passport for question oregon identification, causing imaginable hazard to my information and my family’s safety."

A slope of passports (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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The ACLU said it's been contacted by much than 1,500 transgender radical oregon household members, "many with passport applications suspended oregon pending, who are acrophobic astir being capable to get passports that accurately bespeak their identity."