Supreme Court lets Trump enact anti-trans passport policy: 'Pointless but painful'
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Supreme Court lets Trump enact anti-trans passport policy: 'Pointless but painful'
"In other words: there are two sexes,"
"Our attorneys will continue fighting for that simple truth."
"Such senseless sidestepping of the obvious equitable outcome has become an unfortunate pattern. So, too, has my own refusal to look the other way when basic principales are selectively discarded,"
"This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without ade"
The Supreme Court issued an emergency stay enabling the U.S. government to prevent trans and non-binary people from changing gender markers on passports while litigation continues. The conservative majority granted the stay 6–3, overturning a lower-court order that had blocked the Trump administration’s policy. A federal district judge had enjoined the policy in April and expanded that injunction in June to require self-selection of M/F/X for certain plaintiffs. The stay suspends that injunction during Orr v. Trump, et al. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, warning the decision permits immediate harm, while the attorney general praised the outcome as recognition of biological sex.
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