For transgender Americans, passports just became a lot more complicated.
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Mellow, a transgender woman, left, poses for a portrait with her mother, Lisa Suhay, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025, in Norfolk, Va. Elise Flatland, an Olathe, Kan., mother of two transgender children, watches a session of the Kansas Senate from one of its galleries, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan.
The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Virginia, where they live.instead of a broader conception of gender. The order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender. The framing is in line with many conservatives' views but at odds with major medical groups and policies under former President Joe Biden.
Trump's Jan. 20 order, which questions the existence of transgender and nonbinary people, created confusion and pain for Mellow and others seeking new, renewed or updated passports. A group of impacted peopleThe State Department quickly stopped issuing travel documents with the “X” gender marker preferred by many nonbinary people, who don’t identify as strictly male or female.
The same order that seeks to define the sexes to exclude them would also require housing transgender women in prison in men's facilities. Additional orders could open the door to kickingThe lawsuit filed Friday by ACLU lawyers challenging the passport change contends that the order discriminates against people based on their sex or transgender status, depriving them of their rights to equal protection, privacy and speech.
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