The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration’s policy banning applicants from selecting a gender marker on U.S. passports that reflects their gender identity instead of their biological sex.

The court granted the Justice Department’s request to lift a lower court’s injunction that had blocked the policy while a class action lawsuit remained pending.

The big picture: The policy requires that passports correspond only to biological sex, restricting self-identification for transgender applicants. • This reverses protections established by the Biden administration in 2021, which allowed applicants to self-select “male,” “female,” or a third nonbinary option “X” for passport sex markers without requiring supporting documentation.

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