The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed US President Donald Trump's administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers that align with their gender identity. The decision is Trump's latest win on the court's emergency docket, and allows the administration to enforce the policy while a lawsuit over it plays out. It halts a lower-court order requiring the government to keep letting people choose male, female or X on their passport to correspond with their gender identity on new or renewed passports.

The court's three liberal justices dissented. The court has sided with the government in nearly two dozen short-term orders on a range of policies since the start of Trump's second term, including another case barring transgender people from serving in the military. In a brief, unsigned order, the conservative-majority court said the policy isn't discriminatory. "Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth," it said.