The judge will decide whether to temporarily block the Trump administration from removing the “X” option from passports and requiring that passports match a person’s sex assigned at birth.

Since June 2021, the State Department had allowed trans people to declare their gender on U.S. passports without providing medical certification. The agency also recently said it would stop ...

Immediately, the U.S. State Department began to issue passports only "with a male or female sex marker that matches the applicant's biological sex," the agency told USA TODAY in an email.