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Trans and nonbinary Americans suffered a significant blow on Thursday night when the Supreme Court—in yet another unsigned, barely reasoned order over its shadow docket—allowed the Trump administration to mandate that the sex marker on all U.S. passports align with the traveler’s sex at birth. On this week’s Amicus Plus, co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed Trump v. Orr and how it is in keeping with an almost unbroken string of Trump wins on the ostensible “emergency” docket. A portion of their conversation, below, has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Dahlia Lithwick: This decision is profoundly serious and upsetting. And it’s an ongo

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