U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick has just issued a preliminary injunction that expanded an earlier order she issued in April that had stopped the U.S. State Department from enforcing the policy in the case of just six people.
The judge’s ruling suggest the controversial move by the President is likely unconstitutional, according to a report in USA Today.
Trump issued an executive order immediately upon taking office that the federal government must “recognise only two sexes, male and female,” and that “these sexes are not changeable.”
The Department of State then stopped issuing passports in anything but the applicant’s biological sex. Trans travellers were then stopped and accused of using fake passports.
The passport issue is just one example of Trump’s government-wide rollback of trans rights.
His administration has also taken measures such as banning transgender people from serving in the military, which the Supreme Court upheld in May.
