CNN – The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let it limit passport sex markers for [so-called] transgender and nonbinary individuals.
Just after taking office in January, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that said it’s the policy of the federal government to recognize only two sexes and that those sexes “are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
The State Department later suspended its processing of passport applications seeking the gender marker of “X.”
The move reversed changes made during the Biden administration that were meant to accommodate [so-called] non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming persons.
Beginning in April 2022, Americans had been able to select X as their gender marker.
Lawsuits quickly ensued, and earlier this year, a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the government from enforcing the policy on a nationwide basis via a class-action lawsuit.
“Private citizens cannot force the government to use inaccurate sex designations on identification documents that fail to reflect the person’s biological sex — especially not on identification documents that are government property and an exercise of the President’s constitutional and statutory power to communicate with foreign governments,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the emergency appeal to the high court …
