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President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to permit enforcement of a passport policy requiring transgender and nonbinary applicants to list their sex as male or female according to their birth certificate.

Due to a lower court order, transgender and nonbinary people can receive passports with an “X” identification marker instead of male or female. The Justice Department has appealed that order, the Associated Press reported.

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In its filing on Friday, Justice Department lawyers argued, “Private citizens cannot force the government to use inaccurate sex designations on identification documents that fail to reflect the person’s biological

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