President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to intervene in a bid to refuse to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect their gender identities.

The Justice Department filed an emergency request to lift a federal judge’s injunction barring the U.S. Department of State from enforcing a policy it adopted at Trump’s direction.

The dispute is one of several concerning an executive order Trump signed after returning to office on January 20 directing the government to recognize only two biologically distinct sexes, male and female.

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(Reporting by Andrew Chung in Washington; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)