A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday temporarily paused the Trump administration’s passport policy removing the ability of transgender people to change their sex markers and non-binary people to get “X” markers for their travel documents.
Biden appointee U.S. District Judge Julia E. Kobick held that a group of transgender and nonbinary people who sued the administration in February were likely to succeed with arguments that they were denied their constitutional right to equal protection for a policy with little apparent motivation beyond anti-LGBT+ animus.
