{"id":31354,"date":"2025-01-23T18:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/rubio-instructs-staff-to-freeze-passport-applications-with-x-sex-markers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T18:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:42:17","slug":"rubio-instructs-staff-to-freeze-passport-applications-with-x-sex-markers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/rubio-instructs-staff-to-freeze-passport-applications-with-x-sex-markers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with \u2018X\u2019 sex markers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state tells staff \u2018sex is not changeable\u2019 in email following Trump executive order on gender<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/23\/donald-trump-pardons-january-6-us-president-joe-biden-jd-vance-republicans-live-news\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US state department has frozen all applications for passports with \u201cX\u201d sex markers and changes to gender identity on existing passports, following a new executive order signed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> on his first day of office.<\/p>\n<p>In an internal email shared with the Guardian, the secretary of state, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/marco-rubio\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, instructed department staff on Thursday to implement the strict new guidelines for official documentation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/23\/trump-rubio-x-gender-passport\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of state tells staff \u2018sex is not changeable\u2019 in email following Trump executive order on gender US politics live \u2013 latest updates The US state department has frozen all applications for passports with \u201cX\u201d sex markers and changes to gender identity on existing passports, following a new executive order signed by Donald Trump on &#8230; <a title=\"Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with \u2018X\u2019 sex markers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/23\/rubio-instructs-staff-to-freeze-passport-applications-with-x-sex-markers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rubio instructs staff to freeze passport applications with \u2018X\u2019 sex markers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}