{"id":22889,"date":"2025-02-27T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22889"},"modified":"2025-02-27T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T10:24:49","slug":"how-trumps-changes-to-u-s-gender-policy-could-affect-your-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22889","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s Changes to U.S. Gender Policy Could Affect Your Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump\u2019s order abolishing the \u201cX\u201d marker and recognizing only birth sex has caused confusion and anxiety for trans, intersex and gender-nonconforming travelers.<\/p>\n

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Last Friday, Hunter Schafer, the trans actress who starred in the HBO series \u201cEuphoria,\u201d posted an eight-and-a-half-minute video on TikTok<\/a> revealing that she had just received a new passport with a male marker \u2014 nearly a decade after changing her gender marker to female on identity documents.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was shocked,\u201d Ms. Schafer said in the video. \u201cI just didn\u2019t think it was actually going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Trump signed an executive order<\/a> on Jan. 20 that directed the federal government to recognize people only by the \u201cimmutable biological classification as either male or female\u201d that they were assigned at birth. For trans, intersex and gender-nonconforming Americans applying for or renewing passports, that change has caused anxiety and confusion.<\/p>\n

Since June 2021, the State Department<\/a> had allowed trans people to declare their gender<\/a> on U.S. passports without providing medical certification. The agency also recently said it would stop issuing passports with the gender-neutral X marker that had been available since April 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit on Feb. 7 against Mr. Trump and the State Department on behalf of seven transgender Americans<\/a>. With that suit pending, here\u2019s what we know about how the policy is affecting passport applications.<\/p>\n