A federal judge questioned the Trump administration why the U.S. State Department issues passports containing male and female sex markers.
US District Judge Julia Covic asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) about the “scientific data or alternatives” being “consulted” before the State Department. issue According to Bloomberg law, they will no longer issue “US passports or overseas birth consular reports (CRBAs) with X markers.”
“You have to give me something, or I don't think there's anything,” Kovic said according to the outlet.
According to the outlet, Covic's response came after a “group of transgender Americans” filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
A group of transgender Americans sued the administration, claiming that policies have caused border officials to “go out” themselves and exposed them to potential violence while traveling. They are asking the U.S. District Court to have a provisional injunction to block the new policy from enforcing it, and require the State Department to continue to allow the “X” designation on their passports while the lawsuit arises.
Washington Blade It has been reported The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU in Massachusetts and the private law firm Covington & Burlington LPP.
The State Department's travel.state.gov website states:
On January 20, 2025, the White House issued an executive order “Protect women from gender ideological extremism and restore biological truths to the federal government.”
Under executive orders, X-markers will no longer be used to issue overseas births (CRBAs) passports or consular reports. Passports will only be issued with M or F sex markers that match the customer's biological sex at birth.
President Donald Trump's executive order, situation “It is US policy to recognize two genders, male and female. These genders have not changed and are based on basic, incontroversial reality.”
The executive order states: “State and Homeland Security Secretaries and Directors of the Personnel Management shall make changes to require government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas and global entry cards, to accurately reflect the gender of the owner.”
According to Bloomberg law, “The President is granted the authority by Congress to establish these rules and procedures, and is doing so here,” a lawyer for the DOJ argued. “The President does not need to be notified and commented rules when issuing such rules.”
As previously reported by Breitbart News, several people identifying transgender people like HBO since Trump's executive order A sense of happiness Star Hunter Schafer spoke about how their passports were returned to their biological sex.
In a press release from the ACLU, “a trans man living in West Virginia” Ashton Orr accused Trump of “trying to control the lives and identities of trans people.” Washington Blade.
