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Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with 'X' sex markers
The Guardian ^ | 1/23/2025 | The Guardian

Posted on 01/23/2025 9:01:20 PM PST by ransomnote

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In an internal email shared with the Guardian, the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, instructed department staff on Thursday to implement the strict new guidelines for official documentation. “The policy of the United States is that an individual’s sex is not changeable,” the email read.

Rubio’s directive states that “sex, and not gender, shall be used” in official documents including passports and consular report of birth abroad documents.

State department staff on Thursday were ordered to “suspend any application requesting an X sex marker” and to “suspend any application where the applicant is seeking to change their sex marker” from the definition provided in the executive order. The policy affects both current and future passport applications.


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I wondered how US passports allowed a 'transwoman' to pass as legally female so that he then turned around and obtained a 'female' designation on his state license. He was bragging and telling other trans people to do it too. Within a very short time he received an email from his state's DMV thanking him for calling their error to their attention and promising to send him a new, corrected drivers license in the mail. Welp, in 2022, Biden permitted passports to use 'gender idenity' as sex.

 

The Guardian says the US State Department began issuing passports with the non-binary third gender identification “X” in April of 2022.

 The White House told the news site Notus that Passports with the “X” identification are still valid, but issues will surface with renewals.


1 posted on 01/23/2025 9:01:20 PM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

Freeze them.

That’s cold but I like it. A lot.


2 posted on 01/23/2025 9:02:38 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: ransomnote
> The White House told the news site Notus that Passports with the “X” identification are still valid, but issues will surface with renewals.

That seems only fair. Somebody with an "X" passport was following the law as it was at the time, so they don't deserve to have their passport invalidated immediately. Who knows, they may be currently traveling, etc.

OTOH, renewal time will bring a reckoning with reality.

3 posted on 01/23/2025 9:13:50 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: dayglored
Somebody with an "X" passport was following the law as it was at the time

It wasn't a law, that's the problem. The "X" passport was a previous executive order.

4 posted on 01/23/2025 9:26:42 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: dayglored

How about giving people with the X passport 60 days or so to get new passports. Bring the reckoning that much closer.


5 posted on 01/23/2025 9:35:18 PM PST by Redcitizen
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> How about giving people with the X passport 60 days or so to get new passports. Bring the reckoning that much closer.

I like that.

6 posted on 01/23/2025 9:38:13 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman
> It wasn't a law, that's the problem. The "X" passport was a previous executive order.

Good point. Those EOs have the bad habit of acting like laws. Temporary (they can be rescinded) but nevertheless they have sweeping legal power while they're in effect.

7 posted on 01/23/2025 9:40:33 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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To: ransomnote

Little Marco seeking redemption after he humiliated himself during the 2016 primaries.

Ambition is not all bad.


8 posted on 01/23/2025 9:55:52 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: ransomnote

This issue should be addressed, but what about the small percentage of people born with the reproductive organs of one sex but the chromosomes of the opposite one?

Every state already screens newborns for various health conditions and diseases. IMHO, newborns should be screened for chromosomal disorders, too.


9 posted on 01/23/2025 9:59:32 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: frank ballenger

Insanity must end. NOW.

There’s no such thing as gender when it comes to sex...it was made up!

Can we get back to SOME normalcy in the US now?


10 posted on 01/23/2025 10:24:30 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: dp0622

Return to normalcy kicked off big time a few days ago.


11 posted on 01/23/2025 10:42:18 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s right!


12 posted on 01/23/2025 11:30:29 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: dayglored

How about not letting them back in the US.


13 posted on 01/24/2025 2:05:46 AM PST by bgill
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How about rescinding that “Real ID” things while he’s at it.


14 posted on 01/24/2025 2:35:34 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino and)
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To: ransomnote

X passport - collectors item?


15 posted on 01/24/2025 3:48:56 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Tired of Taxes
This issue should be addressed, but what about the small percentage of people born with the reproductive organs of one sex but the chromosomes of the opposite one?

How was it handled before insanity took hold?

16 posted on 01/24/2025 4:12:43 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: ransomnote

Muslim terrorist men pretend to be women too!


17 posted on 01/24/2025 5:38:42 AM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: ransomnote
In an internal email shared with the Guardian,

This irritates me. There simply MUST be a way to trap and hold to account people who "leak" information.
It's fairly innocent this time, but people who think it's ok to stab their employer in the back will do so over and over again until they are stopped and made to sample a view of the world through bars.

18 posted on 01/24/2025 6:25:07 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I’ve got a feeling all of us citizens will have an ability to travel with a whole lot less govt on our persons that we’ve had to pay for within the next 4 years..

Like maybe a free to us voting ID card may be the only thing we need to board a plane, etc..


19 posted on 01/24/2025 6:51:45 AM PST by delchiante
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To: BlackbirdSST
How was it handled before insanity took hold?

Good question. I don't know... but the law needs clear legal definitions for male, female, and the exceptions (X). Otherwise, the left will challenge it in court and/or find ways around it, and the insanity will continue.

Just thinking aloud here... Maybe the law should read (for example): "A person's sex or gender on legal documents must be their natural biological sex at birth. All persons naturally born with XY chromosomes and internal and external male reproductive organs are male. All persons naturally born with XX chromosomes and female internal and external reproductive organs are female. Only persons naturally born with XY chromosomes and female reproductive organs or XX chromosomes and male reproductive organs may be listed as X for sex or gender."

20 posted on 01/24/2025 2:43:02 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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