Mere hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order stating that the federal government would recognize only two sexes, male and female. As a result, the State Department immediately eliminated the “X” gender as an option and suspended its previous policy that permitted transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to update gender markers on their passports.

After a back-and-forth in the federal courts following a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union , the conservative-leaning Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can enforce this policy .

But the latest update is not the end of the road for trans people and gender markers, said San Francisco lawyer Alexis Levy, since “this decision doesn’t dispose of the la

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