The State Department can now compel folks to state biological sex on new or renewed passports.
By Catholics for Catholics
From now on U.S. passports will have to state their holder’s biological sex. Period.
In another victory for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court paved the way for the State Department to compel folks to state their biological sex on new or renewed passports, as it centers on having stricter policies involving people who identify as transgender, according to Fox News.
“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,” the majority wrote in the unsigned order.
As expected, the Court’s three progressive judges begged to differ. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, lambasted her Republican-appointed colleagues in a long dissent for what she said had become a “routine” of siding with the Trump administration on the emergency docket.
The majority “fails to spill any ink considering the plaintiffs, opting instead to intervene in the Government’s favor without equitable justification, and in a manner that permits harm to be inflicted on the most vulnerable party,” Jackson wrote, adding that transgender people have been permitted to state their preferred gender on passports for more than three decades.
The class action lawsuit, brought by a dozen self-described transgender, nonbinary or intersex people on behalf of themselves and others in their situation, will continue to proceed through the lower courts.
The high court found in a 6-3 order temporarily greenlighting the policy that a lower court in Massachusetts had erred in blocking it.
🚨 JUST NOW: Supreme Court deals a major blow to LGBTQ madness by kicking transgenderism off the U.S. passport, a win for Donald Trump.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 6, 2025
Male, female. That’s it, folks. 2 pic.twitter.com/AoWIXwHUS2
Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, rejoiced that the Supreme Court had delivered the Department of Justice roughly two-dozen victories this year on the emergency docket, sometimes named as a shadow or interim docket, where cases are fast-tracked so that the Supreme Court can potentially offer temporary resolutions until the merits of the cases are examined.
“Today’s stay allows the government to require citizens to list their biological sex on their passport,” Bondi said on social media. “In other words: there are two sexes, and our attorneys will continue fighting for that simple truth.”
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