The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to lift a lower court’s block of its policy restricting the gender on a person’s passport to his or her biological sex.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued a federal district court’s injunction, allowing people to select their own sex designation on passports regardless of their biological sex, has “no basis in law or logic” and said the high court should halt the order.
“Private citizens cannot force the government to use inaccurate sex designations on identification documents that fail to reflect the person’s biological sex—especially not on identification documents that are government property and an exercise of the President’s constitutional and statutory power to communicate with foreign governments,” Sauer wrote in his petition to the Supreme
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