FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, introduced a bill Friday to prevent passports from being used to promote “radical gender ideology.”
The Passport Sanity Act prohibits the secretary of State from issuing a passport, passport card, or Consular Report of Birth Abroad that includes the unspecified (X) gender designation.
“Radical gender ideology must be eliminated from every facet of the American government, root and branch,” Roy told The Daily Signal.
“Passports exist to protect our national security by verifying the identity of those who exit and reenter our country, and that’s why they need to be grounded in reality. They are not a political delivery system to push a false notion that goes against the fact that the only two genders in existence are male and female,” he added.
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The bill, which Roy first introduced in 2022, requires applications for foreign travel documents to include only the gender designations of male or female.
On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he issued an executive order directing the secretaries of State and Homeland Security and the director of the Office of Personnel Management to require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, reflect the holder’s biological sex.
The executive order defines sex as “an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female.”
Roy’s bill would codify the executive order in federal law so it cannot be overturned by the next Democratic president.
“Now, President Trump and Secretary [Marco] Rubio have rightly restored sanity to America’s passports as part of this administration’s revolution of common sense;” Roy said, “Congress needs to back them up, codify it, and make it permanent.”