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The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy preventing transgender and nonbinary Americans from
Immigration raids have caused some U.S. citizens to carry their passports to the store, to school or to work. But what documents to have on you depends on your citizenship.
A late-night Supreme Court order let the Trump administration enforce a rule requiring U.S. passports to list sex assigned at birth. Here’s what that means for renewals, existing “X” markers, and the road ahead while lower courts weigh the policy.
The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Donald Trump's administration to bar applicants for U.S. passports from designating the sex reflecting their gender identities on the document, part of the Republican president's crackdown on the rights of transgender Americans.
The court's decision is not a final ruling, however; it just permits Trump's passport policy to go into effect while litigation continues in the lower courts.
A lower court judge had temporarily blocked the administration’s policy requiring that passports reflect sex as found on an original birth certificate.
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