Mindless Bureaucracy Temporarily Foiled as District Judge Refuses to Dismiss Challenge to Gender-Binary Requirement on U.S. Passports

“Just because” is not a good enough answer when the question is whether the State Department’s Passport Office was “arbitrary or capricious” when it refused to process a passport application from an intersexual applicant who declined to check either M or F on a passport application.  U.S. District Judge Richard Brooke Jackson of the District Court in Colorado rejected the government’s motion to dismiss Dana Alix Zzyym’s challenge to the gender binary requirement under the … <Read More>