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Transgender rights lawsuits challenge Trump policies on passport markers, gender-affirming care for minors

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A group of transgender people sued in U.S. District Court in Boston over an order that led to the halting of allowing gender markers to be changed on passports and barring the use of the "X" marker used by many nonbinary people.

Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown filed the federal lawsuit in the Western District of Washington .

Three Democratic states sued the Trump administration on over its order to ban federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender people under 19 .

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