The US State Department has updated its FAQ page with a section that refers to them having the ability to ‘invalidate’ trans people’s passports, after the Supreme Court allowed it to enact a ban on changing gender markers.

Supreme Court justices granted an emergency stay to the Trump administration to prevent trans people from using the correct gender markers on passports in a 6 to 3 ruling last week.

In the wake of the ruling, the State Department has said that it will no longer issue passports with a gender-neutral ‘X’ marker, and has also added a sentence to its FAQs that appears to suggest an intention to rescind and invalidate trans people’s current, in-date passports.

A State Department’s webpage on sex markers in passports, discovered by the Substack page Transitics , has been up

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