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Rubio Tells Staff to Assign Sex to Trans Passport Applicants
Rubio instructed State Department workers to suspend the application of a transgender person if there isn’t enough evidence to establish a biological sex at birth.
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US State Department workers reviewing the passport applications of transgender people have been ordered to automatically categorize them as male or female based on evidence of their “biological sex at birth.”
US consular workers were ordered to disregard requests by transgender people and other gender non-conforming applicants to identify themselves on their passports with the “X” gender marker or with a sex other than what was assigned at birth, according to a Feb. 8 memo signed by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and seen by Bloomberg News.