Overview

• The injunction now covers all transgender and nonbinary Americans seeking passports that reflect their gender identity rather than only the six original plaintiffs.
• It applies to those without a valid passport, individuals whose passports expire within a year, and applicants replacing lost, stolen, renamed or reclassified documents.
• U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick ruled that classifying applicants solely by binary sex requires intermediate scrutiny and found the government failed to show an important interest.
• The January executive order narrowly defines sex as male or female and rejects recognition of gender transition in federal documents.
• Advocacy groups such as the ACLU cited instances of misdesignated passports and application suspensions as harms driving their legal challenge.