Trump’s Transgender Passport Policy Faces Skeptical Judge (1)

A Massachusetts federal judge grilled the Justice Department Tuesday on what scientific data or alternatives the Trump administration consulted before implementing a policy of issuing passports designating a person’s sex as either male or female, based their birth certificate.

While courts are supposed to be “quite deferential” to the policy decisions of agencies where their decision making was reasoned, Judge Julia Kobick said, she was unimpressed with the government’s claim that the record isn’t developed enough to say what the administration consulted before implementing the executive order.

“You’ve got to give me something, or else I’ll assume there’s nothing,” she ...