U.S. SC ALLOWS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO END PASSPORT GENDER MARKER POLICY

The US Supreme Court on Thursday (local time) allowed the Trump administration to require the sex designation on US passports to align with a traveller's biological sex - male or female, a blow to transgender and nonbinary Americans who have argued the policy is unconstitutional, CNN reported.

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The order represented another win for US President Donald Trump on the court's emergency docket and another setback for LGBTQ rights at a time when the justices are considering multiple cases involving state laws aimed at trans Americans.

"Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth in both cases, the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment," the court said in an unsigned order, as per CNN.