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Trump's 2-sexes order savages "gender identity."

Here's why that matters to the future of "trans rights" litigtion. 2/
The ACLU is the legal genius behind trans. In its lawsuits, it defines gender identity as one's sense of one's gender, with M and F as examples.

ACLU does not define gender. Judges assume it means sex, but it could mean anything.

🚨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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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.

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I'm reading Trump's executive order (EO) on gender ideology.

It's brilliant, legally and rhetorically.

The intro doesn't mince words. 2/
Feelings will be hurt.

Why does President Trump need to declare there are two sexes?

In 2017, the Endocrine Society claimed the term biological sex was "imprecise and and should be avoided."

Really it was just 10 doctors who said this, but they controlled a key ES committee. /1 The ACLU soon began quoting this ES Guideline in its trans lawsuits to "destabilize" the judges' understanding of sex -- sex being the word that unlocks rights in law.

The idea was to let people identify their own sex by declaring a "gender identity."


/2badfacts.substack.com/p/chase-strang…

🚨Corruption

NYT published a story today about GOP state bills "targeted at the LGBTQ population."

@nytimes says GOP opposes "deference to gender nonconformity." Doesn't mention detransitioners or boys winning girls' trophies.

The piece comes with ads for the ACLU.
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So the ACLU pays NYT, NYT publishes a news article that adopts ACLU's framing, and readers can click from the article to the ACLU join page.

Here's the backstory.

Pitching to media buyers, NYT promises "intentional ad products."
advertising.nytimes.com

Two law professors are trying to scare doctors.

They argue in JAMA (med journal) that if the Supreme Court sides with Tennessee in US v. Skrmetti , medical practice having nothing to do with gender med "may be in peril."
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The piece by Boston U Profs. Nicole Huberfeld and Michael Ulrich is titled "US v. Skrmetti -- Testing the Transition to Politicized Medicine"

It's a slippery slope argument that letting states ban gender med will lead them to ban real med.

Remember the Cali judge who ordered that Tremaine Carroll, a trans-ID male inmate accused of raping female inmates in women's prison, be referred to as she/her?

Transcript of oral argument 🧵 2/
Prosecutor does his job. In part:

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In 2023 I argued ACLU lawyers knew they were deceiving the judge in the trial over Ark.'s child gender med ban.

The post was controversial. In comments and private conversations, well-informed people said I overstated my case.

In 2024 we learned: 2/
ACLU is embroiled in an ethics scandal in Alabama. The lawyers are accused of subverting court procedures to avoid certain judges, then covering up the misconduct.

badfacts.substack.com/p/news-lawyers…

All of America's politically powerful lesbians support an "LGBTQ" agenda that hurts young lesbians by encouraging them to use anabolic steroids, accept boys in their sports, and consider dating boys.
🧵 1. Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) denounced women's sports advocates:

"As a lesbian woman, I am no stranger to prejudice and intolerance — but this legislation is beyond the pale. Plain and simple, the Protect Women's Sports Act is transphobic — and this type of discrimination has no place in the halls of Congress. Especially at a time when the transgender community is suffering from a tragic rise in suicide rates and experiencing a surge of transphobic violence, such a bigoted and appalling effort is simply unacceptable. Queer and transgender women must stand together in the face of intolerance — and I am proud to do so today by emphatically denouncing this narrow-minded and hateful legislation, which is harmful not only to transgender women but to the LGBTQ Community at-large."
craig.house.gov/media/press-re…

This time last year I was open to arguments by "moderate" trans activists.

Then I started researching history.

Mythbusting 🧵 Moderate myth #1:
Trans social contagion is a new phenomenon that only girls are susceptible to.

Truth:
Social contagion has always been a major cause of trans identity, including among boys.
badfacts.substack.com/p/the-trans-te…

Many people are shocked by the smug, foolish behavior of Justices Sotomayor and Jackson at Skrmetti oral argument.

I'm not shocked. They remind me of several other federal judges who have ruled in favor of "trans rights." These people are very confident they are heroes.
🧵 Judge Jay Moody struck down Arkansas's ban on pediatric gender medicine
lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/brandt-files…

I'm reading the Skrmetti transcript.

This 🧵is Chase Strangio from the ACLU arguing against Tennessee's ban on child gender med. Strangio says gender med is the ONLY treatment that helped her clients. What other treatments were tried? Appears none.

Since 1960s, gender doctors have insisted that if someone wants to be the opposite sex, only gender med can help them. They refuse to develop alternatives.

@NYT posted its story on today's Skrmetti rally.

The scene they paint is unfamiliar to me. Were we even on the same plaza? Yes, we were. One of the reporters @minhokimdh interviewed me.
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This makes it sound like the Tennessee side was playing Antifa. Not so! First, there's nothing remarkable about people wearing black winter coats on a freezing day.

Second, there were non-black coats on our side, not to mention our funky signs.

You can livestream the Skrmetti argument at the Supreme Court website starting at 10am eastern.

Does Tennessee's ban on child gender med discriminate by sex or trans status?

Some thoughts about what we might hear 🧵 1. Definitions of transgender, sex, gender, male, female. If the justices press for these, it means they’re figuring out the grift.

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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In the 1970s doctors required male transsexuals to sign on for castration at the outset of transitioning because they were worried about the combination of male-level T and female-level E causing cancer.

https://twitter.com/statsforgender/status/1860483707754414198

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It's referenced in this 1976 court case, for example.
scholar.google.com/scholar_case?c…