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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump’s plan requiring passport applicants to list the sex on their birth certificate, overturning a lower court pause. The 6-3 order, not a final ruling, lets the policy take effect while litigation proceeds. Plaintiffs led by transgender man Ashton Orr say the rule harms transgender and nonbinary people and undermines identification; the government argues the injunction conflicted with foreign policy and scientific reality. The unsigned order called birth-sex notation a neutral historical fact. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by two liberals, dissented, calling the move a “pointless but painful perversion.”

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