BOSTON — The First Circuit declined to issue a stay in the federal government’s appeal of a Massachusetts federal court’s orders suspending the U.S. Department of State’s enforcement of a policy that requires passports to state the biological sex of citizens at the time of their birth. The lower court held the policy is arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act, and the appellate panel declined to question this determination.
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