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.
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Judge Jay Moody struck down Arkansas's ban on pediatric gender medicine lisaselindavis.substack.com/p/brandt-files…
Dec 5 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
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.
Dec 5 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
@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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2/ 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.
Dec 4 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
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.
Nov 28 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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.
Nov 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
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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.
