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In a press release published in September after filing the lawsuit, FIRE's attorneys blasted the Campus Protection Act as a shocking prohibition of protected speech at public universities, that granted unconstitutionally broad powers to Texas universities, giving them the power to discipline students at nighttime for wearing a hat with a political message, playing music, writing an op-ed, attending candlelight vigils even just chatting with friends.

"The lower courts have made abundantly clear how discriminatory and baseless the State Department's new policy is and the harm it poses for hundreds of thousands of people like our clients," said Li Nowlin-Sohl, Staff Attorney for the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project. "People across the country depend on identity documents that accurately reflect their identity-who they are in their workplaces, their schools, and their communities. The administration's attempts to deny that right to transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people has no basis in law or policy, and we'll continue to fight this policy until it is permanently de