The Trump administration has requested that the Supreme Court temporarily pause a ruling from a federal judge in Massachusetts that would require the State Department to give transgender and non-binary people passports with their chosen sex written, rather than forcing them to use the one on their birth certificate. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer claims that the order “injures the United States by compelling it to speak to foreign governments in contravention of both the President’s foreign policy and scientific reality.”
On his first day in office, Donald Trump issued an executive order stating that the US would only recognize male and female as legitimate sexes, and that sex “shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female” and “does not include the concept of ‘gender identity.’” It also instructs the State Department to “require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex.”
