"A State Department's webpage on sex markers in passports, discovered by the Substack page Transitics, has been updated to say that, under an executive order from US president Donald Trump, it will no longer issue US passports or Consular Reports of Birth Abroad with an X marker or markers that do not match a person's "biological sex at birth." "If you submit a passport application requesting an 'X' marker or requesting a sex marker that differs from the sex marker at your birth, you may experience delays getting your passport," it reads. "We will issue you a new passport that matches your biological sex at birth, based on your supporting documents and our records about your previous passports.""
"All previous advice on changing gender markers has been removed and replaced with an FAQs section saying that passports with 'X' markers would be "valid for travel until its date of expiration, until you replace it, or until we invalidate it under federal regulations.""
"Supreme Court justices granted an emergency stay to the Trump administration to prevent trans people from using the correct gender markers on passports in a 6 to 3 ruling last week."
Supreme Court justices granted an emergency stay allowing the administration to prevent trans people from using gender markers other than their sex at birth on passports. The State Department updated its passport sex-marker guidance to say it will no longer issue passports or Consular Reports of Birth Abroad with an 'X' marker or markers that do not match a person's biological sex at birth. The FAQ warns applicants requesting an 'X' marker or a marker differing from birth sex may face delays and that the department will issue new passports matching biological sex based on records. The guidance removes prior procedures for changing gender markers and states that passports with an 'X' marker remain valid until expiration, replacement, or departmental invalidation under federal regulations.
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