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@glennagoldis
Nov 28, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Boy wore a shirt to school that said "there are only two genders." School censored him. He sued (free speech). Ended up at federal 1st Circuit.

Lawyer for school: This message that there is just two genders is vile, and it says to someone who is nonbinary, You do not exist.
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Judge David Barron asked the school's lawyer, What if the shirt said "male is not a gender"?

School lawyer: The administrators would have to think, well, is that attacking a core identity? Probably not. Male is not a gender.
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Boy's lawyer argued the school was not inclusive to him when it called his views hateful. Judge Barron again:

"No one was saying HIS gender didn't exist!"
4/
 The First Circuit ruled for the censorious school. The boy is seeking Supreme Court review.

The case is LM v. Town of Middleborough.

"Male is not a gender" comes up around 35:00-:10, yes I replayed the tape on that one.
storage.courtlistener.com/mp3/2024/02/08…
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 I'm working on a post about LM and other 1st Circuit trans decisions. These New England judges are blazing a trail of inclusivity through the 1st amendment.

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Glenna Goldis Profile picture
Mar 31
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Chase Strangio never explains why it hurts women for the law to acknowledge there are two sexes.

Always just mumbo jumbo about self-determination and colonialism.

So let's figure it out ourselves.
2.
 In a recent lawsuit against the Dept of State, Strangio suggests passport agents will beat up nonbinary women if their passport indicates they are female (rather than nonbinary).

Hm, this can't be the real reason sex classifications hurt women.

3.
 In a recent lawsuit against NYC schools for failing to stock period products, three female lawyers refuse to argue sex discrimination, instead relying on a weaker law.

It's almost like denying the binary hurts women and girls. My search continues.
Read 7 tweets
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Mar 7
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Andrea Long Chu's "Females" (2019) argued "getting fucked makes you female because fucked is what a female is."

Having been castrated before publication, he wrote that "sissy porn did make me trans."

Chu now reflects on Females in a new afterword.
2.
 I agree that elevating trans-ID people's "stories" leaves them open to grift.

But Chu doesn't name the grifters: gender doctors.

When they're pressed about the science behind gender med they say, "Don't be so cold, listen to my patients' stories!" Image
3.
 If TERFs converted the masses, how can they still be a small cohort?

Maybe TERFs are an elect that commoners can never join, only be corrupted by. Like gods who descend from Mount Olympus to cause mischief. Image
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Mar 1
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In 2019, the Harvard Law Review published a 95-page article in support of nonbinary rights. It's been cited by 3 federal appeals courts (5th, 9th, 10th Cir) & the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Lawyers, feminists, athletes, rape victims - buckle up. Image
2.
The author does not define sex or gender. She thinks those terms should be "culturally contested."

Sex should be defined differently in each legal context, she says. The ACLU is now pushing that idea in Orr v. Trump, a lawsuit about passport gender markers. Image
3.
 The author does not define nonbinary (the subject of her 95-page article). Image
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Feb 27
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The notorious Judge Reyes has struck again.

She's presiding in Talbott, the lawsuit challenging new military restrictions on trans service.

She is now helping the trans activist lawyers draft an amended complaint and motion for preliminary injunction.
2.
 New Defense Dept regs bar people with gender dysphoria and detransitioners from service.

Waivers are permitted but it's unlikely trans-ID people would qualify or even seek them, as the military would treat them as their real sex and deny them hormones, etc. Image
3.
 Plaintiffs sued before these regs came out, in response to Trump's exec order.

Reyes is letting them amend their complaint to address the regs (& other reasons).

The case went viral when Reyes railed against the sex binary and browbeat a DOJ lawyer.
badfacts.substack.com/p/will-trump-e…
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Feb 24
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Secret school transitions got the green light from the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals (Boston) this week.

They sat on this hot potato for 17 months after argument and now issue it per curiam (not ID'ing the author among 3 judges).

1 of the original judges, Lipez, recused.
2.
 Foote v. Ludlow concerns Baird Middle School in western Mass.

Court says pronouns, like sex, are given to babies at birth.

The court uses "gender-neutral 'they/them'" for the girl, who was 11 at the time of secret transition. Image
3.
 The folksy writing style sounds like Judge Rogeriee Thompson, who has written spirited trans decisions before.
badfacts.substack.com/p/banned-in-bo…Image
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Feb 15
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Washington AG filed about 100 declarations in its lawsuit challenging Trump's gender med EO.

Doctors, parents, and trans-ID kids speak in their own voices.

Feels like an oral history of a community in crisis. But what caused the crisis?
2.
 This mother is talking about her 8-year old son whose therapist has been helping him pretend to "have babies." Image
3.
 This mother is talking about her 14yo "nonbinary" child (sex not identified) who is forgoing puberty because developing an adult body would "not be ok."

To age or not to age? The question might drive you crazy. Image
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