(CNN) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let it limit passport sex markers for transgender and nonbinary individuals, its latest effort to get the justices to intervene in a fight over restrictive policies targeting LGBTQ+ Americans.
Just after taking office in January, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that said it’s the policy of the federal government to recognize only two sexes and that those sexes “are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.”
The State Department later suspended its processing of passport applications seeking the gender marker of “X.”
The move reversed changes made during the Biden administration that were meant to accommodate non-binary, intersex and gender non-conforming persons. Be