The directive comes days after Trump signed a sweeping executive order that there are only "two sexes" — and it's causing confusion and panic in the trans community.

This story was updated on February 12th to reflect new information from the State Department about "X" gender markers for ...

The department issued the guidance after widespread confusion over whether passports with “X” sex markers would be valid for international travel.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has scrapped US passport applications ... to “suspend any application requesting an X sex marker” and to “suspend any application where the applicant is ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a memo reviewed by NBC News, said additional guidance would be issued on existing passports containing an “X” sex marker.

A group of seven transgender and nonbinary people have Donald Trump and Marco Rubio over the administration's new policy to ...

Dana Zzyym, an intersex U.S. Navy veteran who identifies as nonbinary, in 2015 filed a federal lawsuit against the State ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has frozen all applications for passports with “X” gender markers, an option available to people who don’t identify as male or female that was started in the ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to freeze applications in the passport pipeline with “X” selected as the gender identifier.

IleShadow2/X The State Department froze passport applications requesting gender identity changes or the nonbinary "X" sex marker after Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the move under an ...