The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed US President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that aligned with their gender identity. The decision, issued on the court’s emergency docket, permits the policy to remain in effect while a lawsuit over it proceeds. A lower-court order had required the government to continue letting applicants select male, female, or X on new or renewed passports to correspond with their gender identity. The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices dissented from the unsigned, conservative-majority order, AP news agency reported. “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth,” the unsigned

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