Trump v. Orr Re: October 7, 2025

On the first day of his second term, President Trump issued Executive Order 14168, ordering every federal agency to strip self-attested gender identity from official records and to align markers with birth-assigned sex. Within 48 hours, the State Department froze adjudication of passport applications from transgender, intersex, and nonbinary Americans; some passports were returned with sex markers reset, displacing the prior self-designation regime (including the “X” option).