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Judge BLOCKS Trump's Trans Passport Ban! [1]
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Date: 2025-04-18
Wow, I was bracing for a full Friday, but this one is GOOD news for a change! This is HuffPo via Yahoo:
www.yahoo.com/… Judge Blocks Trump’s Anti-Trans Passport Policy A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing its policy barring trans people from updating the sex marker on their passports. U.S. District Judge Julia E. Kobick in Boston sided the with American Civil Liberties Union’s push for a preliminary injunction while the lawsuit continues. “The Executive Order and the Passport Policy on their face classify passport applicants on the basis of sex and thus must be reviewed under intermediate judicial scrutiny,” Kobick wrote in the injunction. “That standard requires the government to demonstrate that its actions are substantially related to an important governmental interest. The government has failed to meet this standard.”
For a bit more info, there’s a great reporter on Substack —Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com who’s done a more comprehensive report, which I’ll just take a snippet but urge you to read:
.. “The plaintiffs have also demonstrated a likelihood of success on their separate argument that,under any standard of review, the Executive Order and Passport Policy are based on irrational prejudice toward transgender Americans and therefore offend our Nation’s constitutional commitment to equal protection for all Americans ...The judge also found that the administration’s decision to block passport gender marker changes for transgender people was rooted in anti-transgender animus, rendering the policy likely unconstitutional under any level of judicial scrutiny…. The judge also ruled that the passport ban was arbitrary and capricious , failing to meet the standards required by the Administrative Procedures Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Will update — but this is good news and another FU to the Orange Menace, Little Marco and the Nazi, Miller!
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