WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to let it enforce a passport policy for transgender and nonbinary people requiring male or female sex designations that conform with birth certificates.

The Justice Department appealed a lower-court order allowing people use the gender or “X” identification marker that lines up with their gender identity.

The government says it can’t be required to use sex designations it considers inaccurate on official identification documents.

The State Department changed the way it processed passport applications after Trump, a Republican, handed down an executive order in January declaring the United States would “recognize two sexes, male and female," based on what it called “an individual’s immutable biologic

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