On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order attempting to mandate discrimination against transgender people across the federal government and government programs. The ACLU has been contacted through its legal intake form by over 1, transgender people or family members, many with passport applications suspended or pending, who are concerned about being able to get passports that accurately reflect their identity.
For years, including throughout the first Trump Administration, the State Department has allowed people to change the sex designation on their passport to be in alignment with their gender identity. In , the State Department issued a revised policy making it easier to update the sex designation, and allowing individuals to select M, F, or X for their sex. The complaint was filed in the federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Constitution by unlawfully restricting their freedom of movement, as well as their rights under the Equal Protection Clause by unjustifiably discriminating against them on the basis of their sex.
The policy also violates the First Amendment of the U. Constitution by requiring people to have a sex designation on their passport that conflicts with their identity and potentially outs them to others. Today's filing can be found here. Skip navigation. Case : Orr v. ACLU Affiliate. Media Contact. New York, NY Feb Orr v. On his first day back in office in January , President Donald Trump issued an executive order that led the State Department to suspend its policy allowing transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people to update the sex designations on their passports, leading some with pending applications to have their passports withheld from them and others to receive a new passport with the wrong sex designation listed.
Soon after, the ACLU sued on behalf of seven transgender and nonbinary people on the grounds the policy violates their constitutional rights and the Administrative Procedure Act.
Status: Ongoing. Explore case. Transgender People and Discrimination. Transgender People and ID. Transgender Rights. Related Content. Free Speech. The Trump administration is attempting to push its political ideals and conservative agenda on students and restrict access to a diverse and inclusive education. Students are speaking out about how harmful these unlawful practices are. By: ACLU. BALTIMORE β In a victory for transgender youth, their families, and their medical providers, a federal district court today issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of a Trump administration executive order attempting to shut down access nationwide to gender-affirming medical care for transgender people under The temporary restraining order issued by Judge Brendan Hurson can be found here.
