The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to move forward with new rules requiring all U.S. passports to display a citizen's biological sex at birth rather than their indicated gender identity. The 6-3 decision by the court's conservative majority overrides two lower court decisions and the claims of transgender Americans that the policy change is illegal, discriminatory and exposes them to real-world harms, particularly while traveling. Since 1992, passport applicants have been able to obtain documents with sex markers indicative of their chosen gender identity -- when different from sex assigned at birth -- by providing doctor certification that they had undergone clinical treatment for gender transition. "Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equ

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