The State Department froze passport applications requesting gender identity changes or the nonbinary "X" sex marker after Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the move under an executive order signed on President Trump's first day back in office.
"The policy of the United States is that an individual's sex is not changeable," Rubio said in an internal email to staff on Thursday, obtained by The Guardian. The directive explicitly states sex, not gender, is to be used in official documentation, including passports and consular birth records.
