United States President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to let it go ahead with a ban on passports stating the gender identities of transgender and non-binary citizens.

The Department of Justice filed an emergency request on Friday to lift a federal judge’s order that had prevented the Department of State from enforcing a policy requiring binary male or female sex designations on passports.

Justice Department lawyers argued that the government could not be forced “to use inaccurate sex designations on identification documents” that are “government property and an exercise of the president’s constitutional and statutory power to communicate with foreign governments”.

Jon Davidson, senior counsel for civil liberties group ACLU which is representing the plaintif

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