Donald Trump’s administration ordered his consulates deny visas to trans athletes That they try to travel to the United States for sports competitions, as filtered on Monday to various media.
He also prohibited the delivery of permanent visas to all those people who consider that they lied when marking in their visa application the sex box assigned to birth.
The new guide, signed by the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, seeks to comply with the Executive Order issued by Trump on February 5 in which prohibited trans women from participating in women’s sportsone of his promises throughout the electoral campaign.
The memorandum, which is initially addressed only to athletes, gives officials the permission to deny permits to enter the country to all applicants in which they detect “Reasonable suspicions” In your gender identity.
“Both in immigrant and non -immigrant visa applications The applicant is requested to identify his sex as male or female. In addition, all visas must reflect the applicant’s birth sex, “Rubio said.
“We will only issue visas for the US with a male or female score that coincides with the biological sex of the applicant,” he added. Some LGTBI organizations warned that this movement could cause access to the United States to all trans people.
A few weeks ago, The department also suspended the issuance of passports with the genre ‘X’thus canceling a policy of the previous administration of Joe Biden (2021-2025), which allowed to select a non-binary gender option in passports.
Source: Lasexta
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