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Following the President’s executive order declaring that there are only 2 sexes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that all passport applications featuring an “X” gender marker will be scrapped.
From The New York Post. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has scrapped US passport applications allowing Americans to designate their gender identity as “X” after President Trump issued an executive order Monday that it is now “the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.”
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State Department staff were informed of the change in an internal cable sent Thursday mandating “sex, and not gender, shall be used” in official documents like passports and birth records in US embassies and consulates abroad, the Guardian reported.
Staff were specifically instructed to “suspend any application requesting an X sex marker” and to “suspend any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker.” …
Trump’s order stated that “sexes are not changeable” and that the term only refers “to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female.” …
Under former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, passports with the “X” gender marker, which Blinken said would include “unspecified or another gender identity,” were rolled out on April 11, 2022. …
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(Excerpt from The New York Post. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45071104)