The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration can order US passports indicate the holders’ sex at birth and remove designations for transgender and nonbinary individuals.

In an unsigned order, the court stayed a pair of lower court rulings that prevented the administration from enforcing Trump’s Day One executive order that “the policy of the United States [is] to recognize two sexes, male and female.”

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during an event to announce a deal with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk. REUTERS

“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth,” read the order, “in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to di

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