A federal judge barred the State Department from enforcing President Donald Trump‘s executive order aimed at placing two genders on U.S. passports.

U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick issued a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration in favor of several people who sued against the policy, which prevents citizens from placing a gender designation other than male or female, even if they don’t identify with either.

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Trump issued an executive order titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government” in January that instructed officials to change government-issued documents, such as passports, to “accurately reflect the holder’s sex.”

Kobick said the lawsuit will apply to all of those who “currently want, or in the future will want, a U.S. passport issued with an ‘M’ or ‘F’ sex designation that is different from the sex assigned to that individual under the Passport Policy.”

She added that it will also apply to “all people who currently want, or in the future will want, a U.S. passport and wish to use an ‘X’ sex designation.”

Kobick gave the plaintiffs “class certification” in the lawsuit, meaning the case can proceed as a class action. The judge cited that plaintiffs established “that they are likely to experience irreparable harm.”

“Absent preliminary injunctive relief, these plaintiffs may effectively be forced to out themselves as transgender or non-binary every time they present their passport — whether for international travel or to verify their identity in administrative settings, such as employment paperwork or opening a bank account,” Kobick wrote.

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The Trump administration began suspending “any application requesting an X sex marker” and “any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker” after the president’s executive order.

According to the Williams Institute, a UCLA Law School think tank, millions of people in the United States consider themselves either transgender, intersex, or nonbinary.