'Trump Administration's Trans Passport Ban Okayed By Supreme Court'
"Back in January, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to erase the legal standing of transgender people. It redefined terms like 'male' and 'female," inventing new definitions that extended to federal identification documents like passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, meaning trans people could no longer obtain such ID with a proper gender marker. That executive order was challenged, and its enforcement stayed while the matter worked its way to the supreme court. Now, though, the ruling is in: Trans people cannot have properly updated federal identification."
"The executive order, entitled 'Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government,' was blocked from enforcement on IDs shortly after its pronouncement. The Trump administration has since sued to be allowed to enforce the order, which is the case that the Supreme Court decided on today. The ruling came in as a shadow docket decision, with no author willing to put their name on it, though justices Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan all dissented."
"The executive order redefined the terms 'male' and 'female' to refer exclusively to 'an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female," a definition that just gets circular as it tries to get more detailed. The intent here, though, is not to shore up legal language in any sort of biology. Its intent is the erasure of trans people, a goal the U.S. government has now been allowed to carry out on the stage of federal identification."
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