A federal judge has partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Pentagon's ban on transgender service to prevent the removal of two Air Force sergeants while case is argued

Kobick said the passport policy and a related executive order signed by Trump that directed the change discriminated on the basis of sex and sprang from an "animus" toward transgender Americans that violated the equal protection principles safeguarded by the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment.