A federal appeals court on Thursday declined to reinstate President Trump’s policy requiring US passports to state the biological sex of their bearer at birth.

The Trump administration sought to overturn multiple lower court orders blocking the State Department from denying transgender and nonbinary Americans passports consistent with their gender identity.

A three judge panel on the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals found the Trump administration did not “meet its burden to demonstrate a strong likelihood of success on the merits of this appeal.”

The potential harms to transgender Americans outweighed the possible harms to government, the appeals court determined. Getty Images

The Trump administration further failed “to engage meaningfully” with a district court judge’s conclusion

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