"US district judge Julia Kobick in Boston issued a preliminary injunction in April that stopped the enforcement of the policy against six of the seven transgender and nonbinary people who sued to challenge the policy. She later expanded the scope of her ruling to halt the policy's enforcement against all similarly situated transgender, nonbinary and intersex passport holders. Kobick, an appointee of Joe Biden,"
"The administration in court papers argued that the judge's order has no basis in law or logic. Private citizens cannot force the government to use inaccurate sex designations on identification documents that fail to reflect the person's biological sex especially not on identification documents that are government property and an exercise of the president's constitutional and statutory power to communicate with foreign governments, justice department lawyers wrote."
The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to stay a federal judge's order that bars the State Department from enforcing a Trump-directed passport policy. The executive order directs recognition of only two biologically distinct sexes, male and female, and the administration argues the government cannot be required to use sex designations it considers inaccurate on official documents. The Justice Department said private citizens cannot force the government to adopt designations that fail to reflect biological sex on government identification. A Boston judge enjoined enforcement and found the policy violated equal protection under the Fifth Amendment for similarly situated transgender, nonbinary and intersex passport holders.
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