The US government has rolled back a policy that threatened to invalidate passports showing trans people’s correct gender identity.

Less than a week after the change was discovered, a section of the State Department’s website was modified to remove the threat that trans people’s passports would be invalidated if the document did not detail their “biological sex”.

An update on the website’s page regarding passport sex markers, originally discovered by Transitics reporter Aleksandra last Thursday (13 November), said it no longer issued passports or other documents with a gender-neutral “X” marker or markers that did not match a person’s “biological sex at birth”.

However, that policy has now been axed, according to Transitics, who reported the website was updated again to clarify that all

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