US judge blocks Trump passport policy targeting transgender people

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In the United States, a federal judge blocks President Donald Trump’s administration from refusing to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities.   Full story: https://www.rappler.com/world/us-canada/judge-blocks-trump-passport-policy-targeting-transgender-people/

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00:00In the United States, a federal judge blocks U.S. President Donald Trump's administration

00:05from refusing to issue passports to transgender and non-binary Americans that reflect their gender

00:10identities. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobik in Boston expands a preliminary injunction she issued

00:16in April. She earlier allowed six transgender and non-binary individuals who challenged the policy

00:21to obtain passports consistent with their gender identities or with an ex-sex designation.

00:26She says Tuesday, June 12, granting class action civil status to two categories of passport holders

00:32was appropriate, given that the administration's actions affected them uniformly by, quote,

00:36preventing them from obtaining passports with a sex marker consistent with their gender identity.

00:41Lee Naolin Sol, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, calls the ruling a critical victory against discrimination.

00:47After returning to office in January, Trump signed an executive order directing the government to

00:51recognize only two biologically distinct sexes, male and female.

00:56Prior to Trump, the State Department for more than three decades allowed people

01:00to update the sex designation on their passports.

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