Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The Passport Sanity Act prohibits the Secretary of State from issuing U.S. passports, passport cards, or Consular Reports of Birth Abroad that use the unspecified ("X") gender marker. It requires applications for those documents to include only the gender designations "male" and "female."
Progressives emphasize civil-rights and safety harms to nonbinary people.
Narrow administrative change increases chance in a receptive chamber, but high ideological salience makes floor votes contentious and may split members.
The Passport Sanity Act prohibits the Secretary of State from issuing U.S. passports, passport cards, or Consular Reports of Birth Abroad that use the unspecified ("X") gender marker.
It requires applications for those documents to include only the gender designations "male" and "female."
Very narrow but ideologically charged; low fiscal impact helps, yet controversy, lack of compromise features, and Senate procedural barriers and legal risks lower prospects.
How solid the drafting looks.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights and safety harms to nonbinary people.
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights and safety harms to nonbinary people.
Likely strongly opposed.
This limits federal recognition of nonbinary gender and removes an existing option used by some U.S. citizens.
Critics would view it as discriminatory and likely to harm privacy, safety, and access for transgender and nonbinary people.
Cautious and mixed.
A centrist would weigh administrative clarity and international travel practicalities against civil-liberties harms and legal risks.
They would look for evidence of concrete operational problems and might prefer narrowly tailored solutions or compromise fixes.
Generally supportive.
This enforces binary sex designations on federal travel documents, aligning with those who view sex as binary and preferring limited government recognition of nonbinary markers.
Emphasis will be on administrative order and consistency.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
Still ahead
Still ahead
Very narrow but ideologically charged; low fiscal impact helps, yet controversy, lack of compromise features, and Senate procedural barriers and legal risks lower prospects.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Progressives emphasize civil-rights and safety harms to nonbinary people.
Very narrow but ideologically charged; low fiscal impact helps, yet controversy, lack of compromise features, and Senate procedural barrier…
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