"The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump to proceed with his plan to require that passport applicants list their sex as what was designated on their birth certificate. The court's decision overturns a lower court order pausing Trump's policy and allowing applicants to choose for themselves whether they would like to identify with an M for male, F for female, or an X for neither."
"Led by Ashton Orr, a transgender man who was falsely accused of using a fake passport by airport security when traveling with a passport that had a female sex marker, a nationwide group of plaintiffs argued that Trump's policy would hurt transgender and non-binary individuals, would harm the government's ability to identify citizens, and was motivated by unconstitutional transphobia in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee to equal protection of the law."
The Supreme Court allowed the administration to require passport applicants to list sex as designated on their birth certificates, reinstating a policy that had been paused. Male and female sex markers have appeared on passports since 1976, and the government has permitted applicants to request passports reflecting gender identity for over 30 years; an 'X' option for neither began in 2021. Plaintiffs led by Ashton Orr argued the policy would harm transgender and nonbinary people, undermine identification, and stem from unconstitutional transphobia violating the Fourteenth Amendment. The government filed an emergency appeal after the First Circuit declined to block the lower court injunction.
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