The US Supreme Court on Thursday (November 6) allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy restricting transgender and nonbinary people from selecting passport sex markers that align with their gender identity.

The ruling, issued on the court’s emergency docket, marks another legal victory for the Trump administration. It effectively halts a lower court’s order that had required the State Department to keep offering passport applicants the option to choose male, female, or X markers.

Trump’s Executive Order: Recognition based on birth sex

The State Department implemented the passport rule after Trump signed an executive order in January stating the US would “recognize two sexes, male and female,” based on birth certificates and biological classification.

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