Recently sworn-in Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to halt processing passports for people who indicate their sex as “x” on their applications, stating in an email that “the policy of the United States is that an individual’s sex is not changeable.” The directive means trans, intersex and nonbinary people who choose the “x” marker will be forced to carry passports that misgender them. This comes days after Trump issued a day one executive order that asserted there are “two sexes, male and female.” The Biden administration allowed people to select a sex marker on their passports that reflects their gender identity starting in 2021, and issued the “x” marker option for passports in 2022.