Judge’s order order allows transgender or non-binary people to request a male, female or ‘X’ marker
The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to halt a judge’s order allowing transgender and non-binary people to choose the sex marker on their passports.
The justice department filed an emergency request to lift a federal judge’s order that bars the US state department from enforcing a Trump-directed policy.
The dispute is one of several over an executive order Trump signed after returning to office on 20 January directing the government to recognize only two biologically distinct sexes, male and female.
The court order allows transgender or non-binary people to request a male, female or “X” identification marker rather than being limited to the marker that matches the gender on their birth certificate.
