Supreme Court rules White House can implement anti-trans passport policy

The U S Supreme Court on Thursday stated the Trump-Vance administration can implement a guidelines that bans the State Department from issuing passports with X gender markers President Donald Trump once he took office signed an executive order that outlined the initiative A memo the Washington Blade obtained directed State Department personnel to suspend any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker from that defined in the executive order pending further guidance The White House only recognizes two genders male and female The American Civil Liberties Union in February filed a lawsuit against the passport directive on behalf of seven trans and nonbinary people A federal judge in Boston in April issued a preliminary junction against it A three-judge panel on the st U S Circuit Court of Appeals in September ruled against the Trump-Vance administration s motion to delay the move A federal judge in Maryland also ruled against the passport framework Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit on behalf of seven trans people This is a heartbreaking setback for the freedom of all people to be themselves and fuel on the fire the Trump administration is stoking against transgender people and their constitutional rights reported Jon Davidson senior counsel for the ACLU s LGBTQ and HIV Project in a comment Forcing transgender people to carry passports that out them against their will increases the hazard that they will face harassment and violence and adds to the considerable limitations they already face in securing freedom safety and acceptance We will continue to fight this initiative and work for a future where no one is denied self-determination over their identity Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor dissented The Supreme Court ruling is here The post Supreme Court rules White House can implement anti-trans passport plan appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta