Biden-appointed U.S. Judge Julia Kobick issued a ruling Tuesday to temporarily block the Trump administration’s move to only allow two genders, male and female, on U.S. passports. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
Kobick stated in her ruling that the suit against the Trump administration’s policy is likely to succeed because she finds that it discriminates on the basis of sex, is "arbitrary and capricious" and "rooted in irrational prejudice toward transgender Americans."
Kobick wrote that "transgender and non-binary people who possess passports bearing sex markers that conflict with their gender identity and expression are… significantly more likely to experience psychological distress, suicidality, harassment, discrimination, and violence" and that "obtaining gender concordant identity documents is part of the standard of care for treating gender dysphoria."
The judge wrote that the policy would cause transgender individuals to "experience anxiety and psychological distress or fear for their safety if they were required to travel with passports bearing a sex designation corresponding to their sex assigned at birth, largely because they would effectively ‘out’ themselves every time they presented their passports."
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Trump’s order, titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government," directed executive agencies to "recognize two sexes, male and female," saying, "these sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality." (Adobe Stock)
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"Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong … Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself," reads the order.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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