The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Donald Trump’s administration to bar applicants for US passports from designating the sex reflecting their gender identities on the document, part of the Republican president’s crackdown on the rights of transgender Americans.

The court granted the Justice Department’s request to lift a judge’s order that had blocked the policy requiring passports to correspond only to a person’s sex assigned at birth, while a class action lawsuit challenging the administration’s action plays out.

The court’s three liberal justices publicly dissented from the decision.

The administration’s policy reverses decades of practice at the US State Department, which since 1992 had permitted passport sex designations to differ from sex assigned at birth with medical document

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