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muriel_volestrangler

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2. "This was not an emergency harming the government, so the lower court ruling should have stayed ...
Fri Nov 7, 2025, 05:49 AM
Nov 7

... until we can look at the case in full".

Americans having passports for their identified gender, or the "X" for non-binary, was not harming the government - or anyone. It's just that the Trump regime didn't like it. Now, they might be able to pass laws that insist on only "male" or "female", from the gender assigned at birth, which can be held to be constitutional, but they didn't - this was an executive order. So the lower court had examined the case properly, and ruled against the government. But since there's no "emergency", that ruling should have remained, until the Supreme Court hears full arguments.

I Am Not A Lawyer, as they say, but I'm pretty confident that's it.

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