Appeals Court Rules That You Can Make Up Stuff on Your Passport

There have been so many rulings by district courts aimed at hamstringing Donald Trump’s agenda since he retook the presidency that you might have missed this one that came down Thursday: a three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals basically ruled that you can make stuff up on your passport.

A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to allow U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to refuse to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities.
A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold an injunction issued by a trial judge barring the U.S. Department of State from enforcing a policy it adopted at Trump's direction.

The original ruling came down in April and was expanded in June by—you guessed it—a Biden-appointed judge:

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Our judicial system has become a TOTAL freaking joke.

This activist judge wants to force us to include gender “X” as a passport option, and… pic.twitter.com/v5WpfaNeoD
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 17, 2025

This activist judge wants to force us to include gender “X” as a passport option, and allow people to choose whatever sex they feel like on a given day.
Insanity.

Trump noticed something obvious: For millennia, a person is almost always born as a male or female. He signed the executive order, titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” on his first day back in office, January 20:

Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being. The erasure of sex in language and policy has a corrosive impact not just on women but on the validity of the entire American system. Basing Federal policy on truth is critical to scientific inquiry, public safety, morale, and trust in government itself.

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Our sister site Twitchy reported on the situation and offered up some of the reactions on social media:

We can’t have pretend categories on official documents. https://t.co/t9GxtJd57q
— Semperfi Virginia (@fi_virginia2) September 6, 2025

This needs to move up to the Supreme Court. Because there are only two sexes. M or F. Anything else would constitute lying on a government document/ID.
— Patriot Girl 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸🤍🇺🇸💙 (@Christii3131) September 5, 2025

The judges wrote that including actual facts on your passport was not a necessity:

In an order, a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that the Trump administration had failed to argue the policy does not violate federal law and that the government would be “irreparably injured” if the policy were enjoined. The administration, the judges wrote, had also failed “to engage meaningfully” with an earlier district court analysis that its passport policy is rooted in an “unconstitutional animus toward transgender Americans.”

When basic facts of life are questioned by the Democrats and the increasingly activist courts, one has to wonder if too many people have “lost the plot” in this woke era. Asking you to tell the truth on a passport application should not be a stretch.

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