President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump disembark Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, after returning from a state visit to Britain.聽
Trump asks Supreme Court to halt order letting transgender people choose passport sex markers
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to halt a judge鈥檚 order allowing transgender and nonbinary people to choose the sex marker on their passports.
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump disembark Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025, after returning from a state visit to Britain.聽
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to halt a judge鈥檚 order allowing transgender and nonbinary people to choose the sex marker on their passports.
The allows transgender or nonbinary people to request a male, female or 鈥淴鈥 identification marker rather than being limited to the marker that matches the gender on their birth certificate.
The Justice Department argues the government can鈥檛 be required to use sex designations that it considers inaccurate on official documents.
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The order came after a lawsuit challenging an executive order from President Donald Trump that required people choose 鈥渕ale鈥 or 鈥渇emale鈥 based on the designations on their birth certificate.
The plaintiffs said some transgender people had seen their applications returned with changed designations and others were afraid to submit applications.
The transgender said in February that her new passport had been issued with a male gender marker, even though she’d had female gender markers on her license and passport since she was a teenager.
