Employees for the department for Homeland Security And US customs and immigration services will no longer be able to process applications containing “x” marker for gender.
In a letter sent to DHS field operations and USCIS employees received by Fox News Digital officials that they “do not make a final decision on any application that would make a document labeled” X “, quoting the President, quoting the president Donald Trump 20. January an executive command that “forbids the use of” X “marker on our documentation and in our systems.”
“This is in line with the executive order of President Trump to recognize two sexes, male and female,” DHS Assistant told the Tricia McLaughlin public affairs for Fox News Digital. “This is common sense.”
President Donald Trump holds an executive command after signing him at an event in a closed presidential inaugural event in Washington on Monday, January 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
The letter comes after Trump signed the executive command of the first day on duty intended for the transformation of the language used by the Federal Government in the documentation, including the move that replaced the term “sex” with “sex” in official documents.
“Deleting gender in language and politics has a corrosive influence not only on women but also on the validity of the entire US system. The basis of federal policy on truth is crucial for scientific research, public security, morality and trust in the Government itself,” Signed Trump.
President Donald Trump is guided by the withdrawal of the Spring donor of the Republican National Committee, at Palm Beach, Florida, May 4, 2024 (Campaign Donald Trump 2024)
This move also cancels changes in time Biden administrationincluding the giving of Americans who do not identify with any of the two biological sexualities the possibility of marking documents such as passports with “X” instead of “male” or “female”.
The person holding the Passport of the United States with the logo of the State Visible Department, Lafayette, California, May 2, 2023. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
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But Trump’s command calls for all agencies of the Federal Government to ensure that all documents “accurately reflect the gender of the owner”, which defines the command as a “immutable biological classification of the individual”.
