Marco Rubio prohibits passports with dialing ‘x’: only two genres are accepted

After the investiture of Donald Trump as president of the United States, he issued an executive order that states that, from now on, it is “United States policy to recognize two sexes: male and female.” To this, the newly possessed Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, He ruled out the requests for American passports that had the option to mark an X In your gender identity.

On Thursday, January 23, the State Department was informed, through an internal statement, on the order that “Sex is used, and not gender” When issuing official documents, such as passports or birth records in US embassies and consulates in foreign countries. In addition, the order expresses “suspend any request requesting a sex marker X”, and “suspend any request in which the applicant seeks to change his sex marker.”

Passports, which have already been issued with the X marking before this order, will not be withdrawn, but it will not be possible for people to renew their documents with the same dialing, you must choose between feminine or male. The order established Trump said that “the sexes are not changing”, and that the term refers to “The immutable biological classification of an individual”. He assures that ‘sex’ is not synonymous with ‘gender identity’.

The measure of implementing the option to mark X in the identity of the passports, was issued by former Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, in April 2022, under the mandate of former president Joe Biden. A good decision received by the LGBTIQ+ community from the North American country That, together with civil rights organizations, they exerted pressure for almost a year to obtain the inclusive recognition of non -binary and intersex people.

The X marking included “un specified gender identity or other gender identity.” “The department is implementing a precedent as the first federal government agency to offer the gender marker X in an identity document,” said Blinken in March last year, referring to this measure as a “Milestone” to serve Americans, independent of his gender identity.

Non -binary, intersex and others that do not identify with gender norms, They were able to change their identity in passports marking ‘X’. In addition, other agencies, such as the United States citizenship and immigration service, also facilitated in the documents the option to mark ‘X’ for people who are not satisfied with their gender.