Transgender Passport Policy Cannot be Enforced on Six People

The Trump administration must allow six suing transgender people to have their preferred gender reflected on their US passports, a federal court ruled Friday.

The administration can’t enforce its policy requiring a person’s sex on their passport to be based their birth certificate with regards to six US residents, Judge Julia E. Kobick said in a memorandum and order. Kobick partially granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruling they were likely to succeed in their lawsuit.

If these six people must “use such passports, they are likely ...