The Supreme Court on Nov. 6 allowed the Trump administration to enforce its policy requiring the sex designation on a U.S. passport to be consistent with the passport holder’s sex at birth.
The court’s decision in Trump v. Orr took the form of an unsigned order without comment.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the new ruling.
“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’s order states….
Supreme Court Allows State Department Policy Requiring Sex at Birth on Passports
