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Transgender Americans aim to block Trump’s passport policy change
The Associated Press ^ | March 24, 2025 | BY MICHAEL CASEY AND RODRIQUE NGOWI

Posted on 03/25/2025 3:39:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

BOSTON (AP) — When Ash Lazarus Orr went to renew his passport in early January, the transgender organizer figured it would be relatively routine.

But more than two months on, Orr is waiting to get a new passport with a name change and a sex designation reflecting who he is. The delay has prevented him from traveling overseas to receive gender-affirming care this month in Ireland since he refuses to get a passport that lists an “inaccurate sex designation.”

Orr blames the delay on President Donald Trump, who on the day he took office issued an executive order banning the use of the “X” marker as well as the changing of gender markers. 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.

“This is preventing me from having an accurate identification and the freedom to move about the country as well as internationally,” said Orr, who is among seven plaintiffs — five transgender Americans and two nonbinary plaintiffs — who have sued the Trump administration in federal court over the policy. “This has really, truly impeded on my life and my freedom as well ... The government is questioning who I am as a trans person.”

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the federal government on their behalf and will be in court Tuesday in Boston seeking a preliminary injunction, which would put the policy on hold while the lawsuit proceeds in court.

“We all have a right to accurate identity documents, and this policy invites harassment, discrimination, and violence against transgender Americans who can no longer obtain or renew a passport that matches who they are,” ACLU lawyer Sruti Swaminathan said.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: culturewar; homosexualagenda; passport; perverts; policy; trans; travel
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1 posted on 03/25/2025 3:39:55 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fat, stupid, and ugly.


2 posted on 03/25/2025 3:43:28 AM PDT by Mr_Peter (The FBI is a criminal organization)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pretending is no longer on the menu


3 posted on 03/25/2025 3:44:50 AM PDT by BRL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the mentally ill were on a no-fly list as they should be, this wouldn’t be an issue.


4 posted on 03/25/2025 3:46:47 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trannies are one of the greatest threats to America. Those clowns aren’t right.


5 posted on 03/25/2025 3:49:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Bureaucratic District "Judges" are the greatest threat to America and Americans.)
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To: BRL
there appear to be two Universes.


6 posted on 03/25/2025 3:49:46 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone is free to change their gender provided they begin with the chromosome replacement first.


7 posted on 03/25/2025 3:50:32 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Falsifying a government document is a federal crime.


8 posted on 03/25/2025 3:52:09 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Note to this sick, ugly freak.The days of sick freaks dictating social policy are now being ended by non freaks. Go away now.


9 posted on 03/25/2025 3:55:26 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All 5 of em?


10 posted on 03/25/2025 4:01:57 AM PDT by albie (U)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
> We all have a right to accurate identity documents… <

The ACLU lawyer is actually right, but not in the way he thinks. These documents are meant to tell who you are, not who you think you are.

It’s a free country. So if I want to call myself Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French - why not? That doesn’t mean I have the right to have that title on all my government documents.

Anyway, here I am returning to the fields of Waterloo. This time I won’t be losing.


11 posted on 03/25/2025 4:03:28 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: Leaning Right

Well done sir!


12 posted on 03/25/2025 4:06:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So the ancient expression “the lunatics are running the asylum” is not longer valid as a reproach?


13 posted on 03/25/2025 4:07:19 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just show us all, leave the country and go to Ireland.


14 posted on 03/25/2025 4:07:25 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Time to Play Cowboys and Snowflakes!”)
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To: Redleg Duke

[He don’t have a passport...]

LOL


15 posted on 03/25/2025 4:10:35 AM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

EYE Bleach!


16 posted on 03/25/2025 4:16:52 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience..)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

At all.


17 posted on 03/25/2025 4:20:33 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Exactly.


18 posted on 03/25/2025 4:20:51 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Redleg Duke

Or better yet, leave our planet.


19 posted on 03/25/2025 4:21:34 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Love how AP tries their absolute hardest to make this a story. Trannies raising hell is like swatting flies


20 posted on 03/25/2025 4:22:52 AM PDT by albie (U)
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