A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s policy of denying passports to transgender and non-gender Americans. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobic issued the preliminary injunction, extending an order she issued in April that had barred the State Department from enforcing the policy in the case of six people. Donald Trump, in an executive order issued shortly after taking office, said that the federal government recognizes only two genders, male and female, and that these genders are not interchangeable. The State Department has since stopped issuing passports to transgender people.
