A group of transgender people challenges the Trump administrations New policy that prevents the issue of passports with sex indications that do not correspond to the biological sex of an applicant at birth.
Seven people represented by the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit that claims that the policy violates the privacy and the rights of the first amendment. In 2022, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs allowed passport applicants to select M, F or X for sex.
“In this case the claimants have disrupted their lives by a chaotic policy that is clearly motivated by Animus that zero public interest serves,” says Sruti Swaminathan, personnel lawyer for the ACLU LGBTQ & HIV project.
“Our customers have to travel for work, school and family, and force them to bear documents that directly contradict what they know about themselves if where – or who completely withhold documents – is a blatant effort to violate their privacy and deny them their freedom To be himself. “
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House January 31, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
The rule came after President Donald Trump had signed an executive order that promoted ‘biological truth’.
The Order, “defending women against extremism of gender ideology and repairing biological truth for the federal government,” explains that the US will only recognize two sexual and female – based on unchanging biological characteristics.
It prohibits the use of gender identity in legal and administrative contexts and mandates that federal agencies, including those who supervise housing, prisons and trainingadhere to this definition when maintaining laws and issuing regulations.
The order sends changes in identification documents issued by the government, prohibits promotion of “gender ideology” in federal programs, restores previous executive actions that promote and instructs gender identity to eliminate federal agencies to eliminate guidance or regulations that are contrary to the new policy .
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A suitcase, covid vaccination card and passport. (Richleggg)
It was required to “accurately reflect” identification documents issued by the government ” Holder’s genderdefined as “male” or “female”.
In a statement from the ACLU, Reid Solomon-Lane, one of the claimants, said that he lived as a man all his adult life.
“Everyone in my personal and professional life knows me as a man, and every stranger on the street who met me would consider me a man,” said Solomon-Lane. “Now, as a married father of three, Trump’s executive order and the subsequent passport policy have threatened that life of safety and convenience.
“If my passport would reflect a sexual indication that is not consistent with who I am with, I would be used every time I used my passport for travel or identification, potential risk for my safety and the safety of my family.”
A bank of passports (Joe Raedle/Getty images)
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The ACLU said that more than 1500 transgender people or family members have been contacted, “many with passport requests that have been suspended or in treatment that are concerned about getting passports that accurately reflect their identity.”
