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Jan 22 • 12 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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🚨Long Island judge upholds law that protects women's and girls' sports

The matter concerns a man named Bratzilla who wants to play roller derby against women.
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2/
 Last year Nassau County (Long Island, NY) passed a law requiring sports teams using public facilities to identify as mixed-sex or male if the team includes a male player.

A "women's" roller derby team, the Roller Rebels, objected because one of its players is a trans-ID man.
3/
 The man goes by Bratzilla because he is very tall and likes bratz dolls.

Roller derby is a dangerous contact sport. Its players pride themselves in being "punk." The NY women's league welcomes men who ID as women.

I wrote about this case in November.
badfacts.substack.com/p/hooters-brat…
4/
 In July the Roller Rebels sued Nassau County in state court for violating NY law that bars discrimination by "gender identity."

It sought to block the law right away by filing a motion for a preliminary injunction. Today the judge ruled against the team.
5/
 Judge Bruce Cozzens says men are stronger than women and he's not going to wait around for an expert witness to prove it. Image
6/
 Cozzens notes that the Roller Rebels are asking a lot: not only that Bratzilla may play for them, but that his sex be a secret. Image
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 It's legal to bar men from women's sports. Cozzens cites a 1916 precedent from NY's highest court.

He ignores a 1977 decision from an NY trial court that let Renee Richards (a man) compete in a women's tennis tournament. I wrote about that case:
badfacts.substack.com/p/renee-richar…Image
8/
 Title IX comes up indirectly. Cozzens cites last year's Supreme Court decision.

This line is a bit confusing. SCOTUS did not strike down Biden's insertion of gender ID into T9, but did note it wasn't based in T9's text. Image
9/
 Cozzens rules the local law doesn't discriminate by gender identity. (It discriminates by sex, which is legal.) Image
10/
 Nassau County didn't move to dismiss the Roller Rebels' case. It's still alive, in discovery.

The team's lawyers at the NYCLU (state affiliate of the ACLU) announced they'll appeal Cozzens' denial of their motion for a preliminary injunction. Image
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 The same day the Roller Rebels sued, the state filed a similar suit against Nassau County. The state didn't seek a PI.

Nassau hosts NY state championships. So while all this litigation festers, and girls in other states lose trophies, NY girls are getting fair competition.
12/
 Find the decision and other docs on the court's website:
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/Documen…

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Dec 6
Hannah Barnes reports on the UK's "do you like your elbow today?" study of puberty blockers.

Let's look at her quotes from Dr. Cass, the pediatrician who pointed out no good evidence supports blocking puberty based on gender ideation.
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2.
 NHS is not studying less harmful alternatives to blockers (therapy) because parents are going outside the gender service to get blockers. If NHS can't compete with the black market, parents (supposedly) won't bring their kids in and it can't run a study.

1⃣ This rationale for poisoning children depends on the study being great. But it's not, it's a mess, as Barnes documents.

2⃣ Cass helped create "the environment." Her report failed to disclose the side effects of T. She didn't ask the gender doctors what a woman is. If Cass had exposed the grift and gore of gender instead of pretending it was all a big mystery, fewer parents would seek blockers on the black market.Image
3.
 Cass pretends you can't study gender medicine without the cooperation of trans ideologues but that's not true.

1⃣ Point out their lies.
2⃣ Stop excusing the gender doctors' evasions and refusal to provide data about kids they already transed. Call a 🚩 a 🚩
3⃣ Don't accept that the burden of proof is on you to prove their mystical ideas don't work.Image
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Dec 4
🚨
The ACLU's Chase Strangio pretends to be binary in an interview with NYT's @DouthatNYT

Some notes on her rebrand from me, a professor of Strangiology ...🧵 Image
2.
 In Bostock, SCOTUS vaguely banned anti-trans discrim at work.

Do employers have to let men into the women's changing room? Or does Bostock just protect the men's right to have female names?

ACLU argues employers must pretend workers are the sex they say they are. Biden's EEOC moved to ban women-only changing rooms and "misgendering" at work, citing Bostock.

Strangio doesn't want NYT subscribers to know all that so she just talks about men fired for having the name Mary.Image
3.
 What is gender?

Sorry to be a broken record but it's important. Image
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Nov 8
🚨 Schools Advised to Violate Parental Rights

In June, SCOTUS ruled that religious parents have a right to opt their K-5 children out of "LGBTQ" lessons. The case is Mahmoud.

In Mass., the governor and a private firm are advising schools they can practically ignore Mahmoud. 🧵
2.
 Governor's guidance portrays Mahmoud as a narrow decision.

Instead of admitting parents are entitled to opt out, she says they can't be prevented from opting out.

Instead of admitting it's a broad decision, she emphasizes it's fact-dependent. Image
3.
 The right way to advise clients on Mahmoud would be:

"See what Montgomery County did to Mahmoud? Don't do that!"

You'd list the 5 books at issue, because you know they require opt out, and quote specific SCOTUS language about why they're problematic, to help identify other lessons that might require opt out.

Gov. keeps it opaque.
Read 13 tweets
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Sep 9
"I was a dope, OK ... Focus on the overall message I'm giving."

Stella and Mia's interview of Gordon Guyatt is incredible. My notes 🧵

@stellaomalley3 @_CryMiaRiver
(BTW these 2 have very different reactions to Guyatt's epic admission.)Image
2.
 Guyatt is trite about pediatric gender med (PGM). Nothing new here if you've met a buffoon before.

✅ "Multidisciplinary assessments" are key
✅ "My knowledge is superficial"
✅ Cuts off knowledgeable interlocutor
✅ Certain that PGM should be allowed
badfacts.substack.com/p/the-psycholo…
3.
 Guyatt analogizes gender med to "early HIV care."

But doctors have been treating "gender" for 60+ years.

HIV researchers have figured out prevention, detection, and treatments proven to save lives.

"Gender" researchers have not 🤨
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Sep 5
🚨 Seattle Public Schools defies US Supreme Court

Parents have a constitutional right to opt their young children out of "LGBTQ" lessons for religious reasons. SCOTUS declared this in June in Mahmoud v. Taylor.

SPS has not updated its policy 🧵 Image
2.
 SPS mandates LGBTQ lessons "for the purpose of increasing kindness."

Mahmoud rejects this idea. The lessons inevitably teach kids what to think about sex and "gender identity."

The dissent screamed "kindness," the majority smacked it down.
seattleschools.org/departments/he…Image
3.
 Seattle Public Schools cites many authorities for its position.

They're all subordinate to the US Supreme Court, which holds the opposite. Image
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Sep 4
🚨ACLU shenanigans

SCOTUS is set to hear 2 girls' sports cases this term: Hecox (Idaho) and BPJ (WV).

BPJ is a boy on blockers. Hecox is a college man who went through puberty. ACLU reps both.

ACLU wants SCOTUS only thinking about puberty-blocked boys. So... 🧵
2.
 ACLU got Hecox to drop his lawsuit. Now it's arguing his case is moot so SCOTUS shouldn't hear it.

Details from Idaho's counsel:
3.
 ACLU lawyers don't want trans rights to be based on whether someone has had medical interventions. Just "identity."

But in sports cases like BPJ they argue it matters when boys are puberty-blocked. It's just easier to win that way. They can build on the precedent later.
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