Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with 'X' sex markers [View all]
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Source: The Guardian
Thu 23 Jan 2025 12.52 EST
Last modified on Thu 23 Jan 2025 13.01 EST
The US state department has frozen all applications for passports with “X” sex markers and changes to gender identity on existing passports, following a new executive order signed by Donald Trump on his first day of office.
In an internal email shared with the Guardian, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, instructed department staff on Thursday to implement the strict new guidelines for official documentation. “The policy of the United States is that an individual’s sex is not changeable,” the email read.
Rubio’s directive states that “sex, and not gender, shall be used” in official documents including passports and consular report of birth abroad documents.
State department staff on Thursday were ordered to “suspend any application requesting an X sex marker” and to “suspend any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker” from the definition provided in the executive order. The policy affects both current and future passport applications.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/23/trump-rubio-x-gender-passport
ETA - for reference: From 2022 -
The White House announces moves to gender neutral passports
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