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Welcome back to Unbiased Politics. Today is Monday, November 10th. Let's talk about some news.

We're going to start with some Thursday news and then work our way to some more recent news.

So starting with the Thursday ruling out of the Supreme Court,

allowing the Trump administration to continue temporarily enforcing its policy,

prohibiting the ex-sex markers on U.S. passports. I want to clarify at the outset of this story

that litigation is not over in this case. The case is not over. Okay. Thursday's ruling

basically put a lower court ruling on pause until the appellate court is able to hear the appeal.

But first, before we get into what the future of this case might look like, I want to talk about

how we got here.

So back in 2022, the Biden administration introduced a new policy, which allowed American citizens to self-select either male, female, or X as their sex on their passport application.

That policy also removed the requirement to provide

medical documentation if their sex didn't match other ID documents. Now prior to 2022, the State

Department allowed passport applicants to change the sex marker from male to female or female

to male if they had a doctor's statement explaining that they had undergone clinical treatment

for gender transition. So the 2022 change effectively allowed any U.S. citizen to choose to self-select X male or female without having to provide

any sort of documentation showing that their selection matched their sex on other documents.

If your license said male, you could choose female on your passport application.

If your license said female, you could choose X on your passport

application. It didn't matter. But once Trump returned to office in January, he signed an executive order

that said that the federal government would only recognize two sexes, male and female. That order also

instructed the state department to require that government

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