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January 24, 2025

State Dept. Halts Passport Applications with Gender Nonbinary "X" Sex Marker
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Recently sworn-in Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State
Department to halt processing passports for people who indicate their
sex as "x" on their applications, stating in an email that "the policy
of the United States is that an individual's sex is not changeable." The
directive means trans, intersex and nonbinary people who choose the "x"
marker will be forced to carry passports that misgender them. This comes
days after Trump issued a day one executive order that asserted there
are "two sexes, male and female." The Biden administration allowed
people to select a sex marker on their passports that reflects their
gender identity starting in 2021, and issued the "x" marker option for
passports in 2022.


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