Good News! Finally.

Another judge just said, "Not so fast!" lets slow it down and come to court. AP News reports that...

Transgender Americans aim to block Trump’s passport policy change

By  MICHAEL CASEY and RODRIQUE NGOWI
March 25, 2025

When Ash Lazarus Orr went to renew his passport in early January, the transgender organizer figured it would be relatively routine.

But more than two months on, Orr is waiting to get a new passport with a name change and a sex designation reflecting who he is. The delay has prevented him from traveling overseas to receive gender-affirming care this month in Ireland since he refuses to get a passport that lists an “inaccurate sex designation.”

 

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 The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the federal government on their behalf and was in court Tuesday in Boston seeking a preliminary injunction, which would put the policy on hold while the lawsuit proceeds in court. It is the only lawsuit of its kind filed so far.

“This policy is not a passport policy. It’s an anti-trans policy and the executive order is very clear about that,” ACLU lawyer Li Nowlin-Soul, said after the court hearing. “It’s very important to take up this fight because there are so many attacks on trans people right now ... The government has given no justification for why this policy has been put in place.”

The results of that hearing...

US judge questions Trump's passport policy targeting transgender people
Reuters

By Nate Raymond
March 25, 2025

 

Summary

• Judge Julia Kobick sharply questioned Trump administration's defense of policy
• Biden administration allowed passports listing "X" for sex marker

 A federal judge pushed President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday to justify why it could lawfully refuse to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities.

U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick during a hearing in Boston appeared open to arguments by lawyers for seven transgender and nonbinary people that the policy the Department of State adopted at the Republican president's direction was discriminatory.

 

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 Kobick, an appointee of Trump's Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, did not immediately rule on whether the policy should be blocked. But she sharply questioned a lawyer with the U.S. Department of Justice about why the policy was justified.

You know darn well that Trump and his cult followers will be screaming "Activist Judge!" from his "Truth Social."

Courts are Pumping the Brakes on Trump’s Anti-Trans Crusade
Scott Skinner-Thompson Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School

 

In response to the Trump administration’s efforts to deny the existence of transgender people and erase them from public life, many brave transgender people and their allies went to court. Those lawsuits are already starting to pay dividends as judges recognize what is all too plain: Trump’s efforts to scapegoat transgender people are rooted in nothing more than a discriminatory bare desire to harm and, if implemented, will inflict irreparable injury on transgender people.

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The reasoning of these courts builds off decades of jurisprudence protecting transgender people from intentional discrimination—including the Supreme Court’s own decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, protecting transgender people from employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Of course, there is a long road ahead and lower courts have yet to reach decisions in several pending cases regarding the Trump administration’s anti-transgender orders, including the ban on passports and participation in women’s sports. And there is no guarantee that the current Supreme Court will ultimately agree that the anti-trans executive orders are just that—anti-trans. But early indications suggest that federal courts are going to be an import bulwark—even if not ultimately a panacea—for protecting transgender rights and recognizing the humanity of transgender lives.

That is why Trump and his cult followers are jumping up and down yelling to impeach the judges!

This from earlier in the month... ABC News writes,

As Donald Trump seeks to reshape the federal government at breakneck speed, his administration has encountered a flood of litigation challenging the legality of its early actions in office.

With more than 100 federal lawsuits filed since the inauguration, Trump and his administration have effectively been sued three times for every business day he has occupied the Oval Office.

Approximately 30 of the 100 lawsuits relate to Trump's immigration policies, while more than 20 of the cases directly challenge the actions of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. Ten of the cases challenge Trump policies relating to transgender people, and more than 20 cases oppose the president's unilateral changes to federal funding, government hiring and the structure of agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

In Congress Representatives Andrew Clyde and Andy Ogles have submitted resolutions to impeach judges who have ruled against Trump's initiatives, such as deportations under the Alien Enemies Act