Appeals court weighs future of transgender passports case

The Justice Department says the court ended the lawsuit. A federal appeals judge seems unconvinced.

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In 2024, America elected Donald Trump president.

After taking office in 2025, Trump immediately signed an executive order that prevented transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans from receiving federal documents that accurately reflect their identity.

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Dana Zzyym finally received their passport, complete with an X gender marker, on Oct. 27, 2021.

They received their passport six years after filing their lawsuit, and seven years after initially applying for their passport.

Dana almost cried opening their mail after receiving their hard-fought passport.

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The fight for accurate identity documents

  Transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans often have to fight to obtain identity documents that accurately reflect who they are. I ...

In June 2021, The Biden administration announced new passport gender-marker policies that made it easier for transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans to receive passports that match their gender identities.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2021/10/state-department-updates-passport.html

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State Department updates passport gender marker policies

  This summer, the Biden administration made it easier for transgender and non-binary Americans to receive passports that match their gender...

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Dana’s lawsuit wasn’t the only major challenge to the State Department’s passport gender-marker policies.

In 2019, a transgender man sued the State Department to overturn its requirement that transgender applicants present a doctor’s certification to receive a passport that matches their gender identity.

https://jasonbeets.blogspot.com/2021/10/transgender-man-challenges-us-passport.html

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Transgender man challenges U.S. passport policy

  A transgender man’s lawsuit challenged a U.S. State Department policy that required transgender applicants present a doctor’s certificatio...

The circuit court ruled it couldn’t tell whether the State Department would have enacted its binary gender-marker policy if it realized some of its justifications for the policy were unsupported.

The court sent the case back to Judge Jackson and instructed him to order the State Department to reconsider Dana’s passport application.

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Intersex passport case drags on

  [This analysis is the third in a series about a lawsuit by an intersex American to receive a passport with a non-binary gender marker.  My...