The Supreme Court of the United States has allowed the administration of Donald Trump to implement a policy that restricts the right of transgender and non-binary people to indicate their gender identity in passports. This is reported by UNN with reference to Associated Press.
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On Thursday, November 6, the US Supreme Court allowed the administration of President Donald Trump to implement a policy that prohibits transgender and non-binary people from indicating their gender identity in their passports.
The State Department changed the rules after Trump in January signed an executive order stating that the US officially recognizes only two genders - male and female - based on birth certificates and "biological characteristics."
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For example, in February, transgender actress Hunter Schafer stated that her new passport indicated male gender, although in her driver's license and old passport she had been listed as female for many years.
Plaintiffs believe that such restrictions are discriminatory and create danger for transgender people. In their opinion, the requirement to indicate gender according to birth data deprives them of the opportunity to have valid travel documents and makes them vulnerable to persecution.
By classifying people by gender assigned at birth and indicating it in passports solely on this basis, the State Department deprives plaintiffs of the opportunity to have a valid identity document and travel safely
The system of indicating gender in passports has been in effect in the US since the 1970s, and the ability to change it based on medical documents appeared in the 1990s.
In 2021, the Joe Biden administration canceled these requirements, allowing non-binary people to choose the "X" designation. The new Supreme Court decision effectively stops these changes and returns the old rules.
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