US Supreme Court order signals demise of ‘X’ option on passports

The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed a lower court’s decision that delayed implementation of removing the “X” gender marker option for U.S. Passports.

Image: Passport, Cynthia Laird; map, public domain

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday granted the Trump administration’s request to delay implementation of a lower court decision that said passport applicants could self-identify gender, including with an “X” designation. The order signals the demise of an option that trans and nonbinary people could use on the identification document.   The procedural action comes just two weeks after the justices refused a motion by a transgender college student who sought to withdraw her petition to the court in a case involving women’s sports.   In this week’s development, the Supreme Court divided 6-3 alo