Federal Judge Rules Trump's Transgender Passport Policy Unlawful and Unconstitutional

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In a major win Friday, a Federal Judge sided with six complainants and issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump Administration's policy that kept transgender people from updating the sex designations on their passports. The ruling will remain in effect until the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit or the United States Supreme Court orders otherwise.

Presently, the injunction only covers the six complaints but in a statement the ACLU said that the plaintiffs plan to quickly file a motion asking the court to certify a class of people affected by the State Department policy and to extend the preliminary injunction to that entire class.

Judge Julia E. Kobick issued a preliminary injunction Friday after finding that an executive order by President Trump and a State Department policy prohibiting updates to sex designations on passports is likely unconstitutional and in violation of the law. The preliminary injunction requires the State Department to allow six transgender and nonbinary people to obtain passports with sex designations consistent with their gender identity while the lawsuit proceeds.

“This decision is a critical victory against discrimination and for equal justice under the law,” said Li Nowlin-Sohl, Senior Staff Attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. “But it’s also a historic win in the fight against this administration’s efforts to drive transgender people out of public life. The State Department’s policy is a baseless barrier for transgender and intersex Americans and denies them the dignity we all deserve. We will do everything we can to ensure this order is extended to everyone affected by the administration’s misguided and unconstitutional policy so that we all have the freedom to be ourselves.”

“This ruling affirms the inherent dignity of our clients, acknowledging the immediate and profound negative impact that the Trump administration's passport policy would have on their ability to travel for work, school, and family,” said Jessie Rossman, Legal Director at ACLU of Massachusetts. “By forcing people to carry documents that directly contradict their identities, the Trump administration is attacking the very foundations of our right to privacy and the freedom to be ourselves. We will continue to fight to rescind this unlawful policy for everyone so that no one is placed in this untenable and unsafe position.”

Federal Judge Rules Trump's Transgender Passport Policy Unlawful and Unconstitutional

Protest UK Supreme Court Trans Ruling at Parliament Square Saturday

Meeting Point: Boadicea and Her Daughters Statue / Wiki Commons

A protest is set to take place over the UK Supreme Court ruling that transgender people are not included under the Gender Equality Act.

As first announced by the Feminist Gender Equality Network, the protest, which will begin at 1:00 PM Saturday, will be crucial in conveying the anger that the community is feeling at being excluded.

Update: What The Trans has a list of protests that will take place all over the UK.

TERFs celebrate on Wednesday, after Britain's top court delivered unanimous judgement that the definition of a woman under equality law refers to "biological sex." Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

The Equality Act 0f 2010 was heralded as a cornerstone victory for humankind by cisgender and transgender people alike. But to TERFs (Transgender Exclusionary Radicalised Feminists), it was unconscionable that transgender humans could be protected under law, any law.

The Equality Act 2010 provision section 7 "Gender reassignment" remains unchanged at the moment, but the jackels are at the door demanding it be removed.

Updated guidance for public bodies after the UK supreme court’s ruling that a woman is defined in law by biological sex is expected to be issued by the summer, the head of the equalities regulator said on Thursday.

Lady Kishwer Falkner, the chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, described the ruling as “enormously consequential”, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We are going to have a new statutory code of practice, statutory meaning it will be the law of the land, it will be interpreted by courts as the law of the land. We’re hoping we’re going to have that by the summer.”

She said it would give “clarity” that trans women could not participate in women’s sports or use women-only toilets or changing rooms, and the NHS must update its guidance on single-sex wards based on biological sex.