A divided U.S. Supreme Court dealt a fresh blow to transgender rights, temporarily reviving a Trump administration policy that generally requires new passports to reflect the sex on the holder’s birth certificate.

Granting a request from President Donald Trump over three dissents, the justices put on hold a federal district court ruling that had blocked part of a Jan. 20 executive order as likely illegal. The Supreme Court decision will apply while litigation continues in the case.

In an unsigned order, the court’s majority wrote that the government is likely to win on the merits of the legal fight.

“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth — in both cases, the government is merely attesting to a histori

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