"In January, Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed his staff to stop issuing passports with an X gender marker, which had been available since 2022, and said the State Department would no longer allow passport holders to change their gender marker. Existing passports would remain valid, but new or renewed passports would not reflect the holder's gender identity. The policy was in keeping with Trump's executive order saying the federal government would recognize only male and female sexes as assigned at birth."
"Five trans people and two who are nonbinary filed suit against the policy in February in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. In the case, known as Orr v. Trump, they are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and the law firm of Covington and Burling LLP. U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick issued a preliminary injunction in April blocking the policy for six of the seven people who sued - those who doctors said would suffer irreparable harm under the policy."
The Trump administration filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking reinstatement of a passport policy that does not recognize transgender, nonbinary, or intersex identities. A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a nationwide injunction blocking the policy, and an appeals court declined to lift that injunction. Secretary of State Marco Rubio directed staff to stop issuing X gender markers and to halt changes to gender markers on new or renewed passports while allowing existing passports to remain valid. Seven affected people sued; a court issued and later expanded an injunction covering most trans and nonbinary applicants.
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