The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland this week ordered the U.S. Department of State to process the passport applications of six transgender U.S. citizens with accurate sex markers that their gender identity, blocking enforcement of the Trump administration’s passport policy refusing proper sex markers.

The preliminary injunction granted Tuesday, Sept. 9, provides emergency relief to six plaintiffs in Lambda Legal’s federal lawsuit, according to a Lambda Legal press release. The plaintiffs had received inaccurate sex markers on their passports despite having previously held passports with correct designations or requesting only routine updates to their legal names.

The court dismissed claims from a seventh plaintiff because he had not yet been denied an accurate passport.

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