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The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed US President Donald Trump’s administration to bar applicants from designating the sex reflecting their gender identities when they apply for US passports, a move that is seen as the Republican president’s crackdown on the rights of transgender Americans.

America’s top court granted the Justice Department’s request to lift a judge’s order that had blocked the policy requiring passports to correspond only to a person’s sex assigned at birth. Meanwhile, a class action lawsuit challenging Trump administration’s action continues to play out.

According to Reuters , who first reported the development, said Trump administration’s policy reverses decades of practice at the US State Department, which since 1992 had permitted passp

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