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Upon taking office in January, Trump ordered agencies to remove references to ‘gender identity’ or transgender persons from government documents, including passports.

In a dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said there was no emergency, and the change in the passport policy would pose a danger for transgender travelers.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Trump to remove transgender markers from new passports and to require applicants to designate they were male or female at birth.

By a 6-3 vote, the justices granted another emergency appeal from Trump’s lawyers and put on hold a Boston judge’s order that prevented the president’s new passport

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