The Trump administration is being sued once again, this time over the passport policy targeting transgender and non-binary people.
Seven transgender or non-binary Americans, represented by the ACLU, filed a lawsuit Friday, arguing the policy violates constitutional protections against sex discrimination and infringes on privacy and free speech rights.
“The Passport Policy…is motivated by impermissible animus,” ACLU lawyer Jessie Rossman wrote in the complaint. “It cannot be justified under any level of judicial scrutiny, and it wrongly seeks to erase the reality that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people exist today as they always have.”
The policy stems from an executive order Trump signed on his first day back in office, mandating that government-issued identification reflect “biological truth.” The order requires passports to list sex as strictly “male” or “female,” defined not by physical or chromosomal differences but by reproductive function.
Reid Solomon-Lane, one of the plaintiffs, has lived “virtually my entire adult life” as a man. “Everyone in my personal and professional life knows me as a man, and any stranger on the street who encountered me would view me as a man,” he said.
He warned that a passport inconsistent with his identity would forcibly out him. “I would be forcibly outed every time I used my passport for travel or identification, causing potential risk to my safety and my family’s safety,” he added.
The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts, joins a growing wave of legal challenges to Trump’s policies. The White House has not commented.
