The Trump administration filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Sept. 19, asking it to reinstate Trump’s policy that bars individuals from using gender markers on their passports that do not match their sex.
The case stems from an executive order signed by the president on his first day in office that banned passport holders from using an “X” as their sex designation. Like many of Trump’s orders addressing transgender issues, it was challenged by a lawsuit.
U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick of Massachusetts had previously blocked Trump’s order nationwide, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld that block on Sept. 4….