Seven transgender or non-binary Americans He sued the Trump administration Friday over a new policy that prevents people from obtaining passports with sexual designations that match their gender identity.
Transgender Americans, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), argue that their policies violate constitutional protections against sexism and violate their rights to privacy and freedom of speech.
“Passport policy… is motivated by an unacceptable animus,” ACLU lawyer Jesse Rothman wrote in the complaint. “It cannot be justified under judicial scrutiny and is trying to mistakenly erase the reality that it exists as trans, intersex, and non-binary people have at any given time.”
The new passport rules come from executive order Trump signed on his first day I vowed to restore it “Biological Truth” to the Federal Government.
The President requires state and homeland security secretaries to require government-issued identification documents to “accurately reflect” the gender of the holder as defined in the binary “male” or “female” was ordered to implement the This order defines men and women by their reproductive function, not by physical or chromosomal differences.
Reed Solomon Lane, one of the plaintiffs, Statements distributed by the ACLU That he lived as a man “virtually my whole adult life.”
“Everyone in my personal and professional life knows me as a man, and strangers on the streets who met me will see me as a man,” Solomon Lane said..
“If my passport reflects sexual designations that contradict who I am, I am forced to expel each time I use my passport for travel or identification, and I am in the safety of my family and the safety of my safety. “It will pose a risk,” he added.
The hill requested comment from the White House.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Massachusetts, where three of the plaintiffs live. This adds to the flood of legal challenges raised in courts around the country that challenge Trump's drastic direction to restructure the government.
