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The Trump administration is urgently appealing to the Supreme Court to allow requiring passport applicants to select their sex assigned at birth, arguing that the current policy violates constitutional rights of transgender and nonbinary individuals, amid ongoing legal battles and a federal judge's injunction against the policy.
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to enforce a policy requiring passports to reflect only biological sex, challenging a federal judge's order that temporarily blocked this policy due to its discrimination against transgender and nonbinary individuals. The dispute centers on whether the government can define sex solely based on biological classification, with the Biden administration having previously permitted gender markers like 'X' on passports.
A federal judge in Boston ruled that transgender and intersex individuals can obtain passports that reflect their gender identity, overturning a Trump-era policy that required passports to match the sex assigned at birth, and allowing affected individuals to update their gender markers as the case continues.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's policy that refused to issue passports reflecting transgender and nonbinary individuals' gender identities, ruling it likely violated the Constitution's Fifth Amendment and granting class action status to affected groups.
A federal court has expanded a preliminary injunction to protect all transgender, nonbinary, and intersex US passport holders from the Trump administration's policy requiring sex designations on passports to match birth sex, allowing them to obtain or update passports with gender identity or an 'X' marker, marking a significant legal victory against discrimination.