#Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with ‘X’ sex markers

Secretary of State tells staff ‘sex is not changeable’ in email following #Trump's executive order on gender

The #US State Department has frozen all applications for passports with “X” sex markers and changes to gender identity on existing passports, following a new executive order signed by Donald Trump on his first day of office.
In an internal cable obtained by the Guardian, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, instructed department staff on Thursday to implement the strict new guidelines for official documentation.

“The policy of the United States is that an individual’s sex is not changeable,” the email read.
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