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Mai Nguyen Do • Đỗ Nguyên Mai
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Teacher, poet, political scientist. PhD candidate at UC Riverside. Studying immigration enforcement, identity, inequality. Research & Policy Manager at the Harbor Institute for Immigrant & Economic Justice

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Gender markers shouldn't even be on passports at all in the first place. They are unnecessary and I'm glad Justice Jackson hints at this. They weren't even added until 1972 when women started to be able to travel independently of their husbands and fathers.
A close-up excerpt from a Supreme Court opinion. The highlighted passage reads: “The Government also insists that gender identity is not a meaningful basis for identification—strangely begging the question why sex markers are required on passports at all.” Below the main text is a footnote labeled “5,” discussing whether the government suffers “irreparable injury” when temporarily enjoined from enforcing an executive order.
November 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM