"By Lindsay Whitehurst | Associated Press WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump's administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity. The decision is Trump's latest win on the court's emergency docket, and allows the administration to enforce the policy while a lawsuit over it plays out."
"It halts a lower-court order requiring the government to keep letting people choose male, female or X on their passport to line up with their gender identity on new or renewed passports. The court's three liberal justices dissented. The high court has sided with the government in roughly 20 short-term orders on a range of policies since the start of Trump's second term, including another case barring transgender people from serving in the military."
The Supreme Court permitted enforcement of a policy that prevents transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity. The order pauses a lower-court requirement that would have allowed applicants to select male, female, or X on new or renewed passports. A brief unsigned order characterized displaying sex at birth as a mere attestation of historical fact and compared it to listing country of birth, asserting no equal protection violation. Three liberal justices dissented, warning the passports increase vulnerability to violence, harassment, and discrimination and linking the policy to an executive order criticizing transgender identity. The majority emphasized deference to the executive in foreign affairs as justification for immediate enforcement.
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