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Fox News Digital\/<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n

In line with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump proclaiming the U.S. only recognizes two genders, the Department of State eliminated the “X” designation on passport applications and suspended a policy allowing people to identify as the opposite sex or as intersex or nonbinary.<\/p>\n

The move was widely reported by media outlets as “targeting transgender” people. In April, Kobick, who is a federal judge for the U.S. District of Massachusetts, ruled to block the policy with regard to six people who sued the administration over it.<\/p>\n

Her Tuesday ruling extended her previous ruling to temporarily suspend the policy for all Americans.<\/p>\n

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Biden-appointed U.S. Judge Julia Kobick issued a ruling Tuesday to temporarily block the Trump administration\u2019s move to only allow two genders, male and female, on U.S. passports. (Smith Collection\/Gado\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kobick stated in her ruling that the suit against the Trump administration\u2019s 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.”<\/p>\n

Kobick wrote that “transgender and non-binary people who possess passports bearing sex markers that conflict with their gender identity and expression are\u2026 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.”<\/p>\n

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 \u2018out\u2019 themselves every time they presented their passports.”<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to only allow two genders \u2013 male and female \u2013 on U.S. passports. (Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trump\u2019s 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.”<\/p>\n

Though Kobick stated in her ruling that the government failed to demonstrate that the policies are substantially related to an important government interest, Trump\u2019s executive order states that “efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being” and that “the erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system.”<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s 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)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“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\u2019s domestic abuse shelters to women\u2019s workplace showers. This is wrong \u2026 Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself,” reads the order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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