Executive orders on gender identification, lack of direction causing backlogs in passport processing

Name: Executive orders on gender identification, lack of direction causing backlogs in passport processing
Uploaded: 2025-02-09T20:44:00-0700
Duration: 2 min 56 s
Description: President Trump's executive order directing the government to only recognize two sexes, male and female, has been causing confusion in the passport system. Local offices that handle passport applications are working on figuring out the new system, and the U.S. Department of State won't be processing applications with an X gender marker for now, leaving them on hold.

President Trump's executive order directing the government to only recognize two sexes, male and female, has been causing confusion in the passport system. Local offices that handle passport applications are working on figuring out the new system, and the U.S. Department of State won't be processing applications with an X gender marker for now, leaving them on hold.