June 26, 2025
Members of two recently certified classes of transgender and nonbinary people seeking passports that reflect their gender identity accused the Trump administration of "slow-walking compliance" with a Massachusetts federal judge's order requiring the U.S. Department of State to resume issuing passports with the requested designations.
June 17, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge Tuesday expanded to thousands of people a preliminary injunction ordering the U.S. Department of State to issue or renew passports to six transgender or nonbinary people to reflect their gender identity.
May 15, 2025
The U.S. State Department is fighting a request to expand to thousands of people a Massachusetts federal court's preliminary ruling ordering the government to issue or renew passports to six transgender or nonbinary people to reflect their gender identity.
April 21, 2025
A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of State to issue or renew passports to six transgender or nonbinary people that reflect their gender identity, saying a new policy requiring the document to bear a person's sex at birth is "based on irrational prejudice toward transgender Americans."
February 10, 2025
A group of transgender and nonbinary people sued the Trump administration over an executive order that directed the U.S. Department of State to issue passports showing their sex assigned at birth, claiming the policy is one example of the administration's "longstanding animus against transgender people."