AFT President Randi Weingarten, AFT’s LGBTQIA+ Task Force Leaders Respond to Supreme Court Order Upholding Trump Passport Policy Targeting Transgender People

New emergency order allows the Trump administration to block transgender Americans from selecting passport sex markers that reflect their gender identity.

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and Executive Vice President Evelyn DeJesus, along with the AFT’s LGBTQIA+ Task Force co-chairs, CFT President Jeff Freitas and NYSUT Secretary-Treasurer J. Philippe Abraham, issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s emergency order allowing the Trump administration to force transgender Americans to mark their sex at birth on passports rather than their gender identity: 

“The Supreme Court’s emergency order allows the Trump administration to once again trample on Americans’ civil rights. This ruling represents a serious violation—not only of identity and self-expression but of the safety of millions of transgender Americans, who could be harassed or even jailed in many countries around the globe for being who they are. In case after case, this court has enabled this administration to inflict its cruel, extreme agenda on the most vulnerable without credible justification. Americans should be allowed to live safely and with dignity, without fearing that their government will put them at risk.”