The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to change the rules regarding sex marker designations on U.S. passports for transgender and nonbinary people.

Acting on an application for a stay , a majority of justices voted to overturn a preliminary injunction issued in late June by a Boston-based U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, a Joe Biden appointee. The district court's order barred the U.S. Department of State from forcing transgender and nonbinary Americans to select "sex markers" on their passports that "reflect only the holder's sex assigned at birth."

Lower courts have repeatedly ruled in the plaintiffs' favor. Kobick first issued an order blocking the change in April . Then, following the high court's landmark ruling limiting the reach of national

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