Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Passports with “X” gender markers maintain their validity due to a June 2025 ruling by the US District Court of Massachusetts.

Although passports with an “X” marker remain valid, a new federal rule requires airlines on their internal information system to mark passengers with an “M” or an “F.” By Johnny Diaz Airlines are now ...

The high court agreed to freeze a lower court order that stopped the State Department from enforcing the policy put into place by President Trump earlier this year. The injunction allowed transgender ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to enforce for now its policy ending the use of the "X" marker on passports and requiring the documents to reflect the ...

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency this week fully implemented a rule that mandates airlines disregard “X” gender markers on passports and instead input either “M” or “F” when processing ...

The federal government will only recognize two sexes, male and female, under an executive order that President Donald Trump signed Monday.

The Canadian government has updated its travel advice to warn citizens with gender-neutral passports that their documents may no longer be accepted at the U.S. border. “While the Government of Canada ...

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Airlines are now required to disregard gender-neutral “X’’ sex markers on passports when passengers check in and replace them instead with an “M” for male, or an “F” for female, under a federal rule ...