sex discrimination = gender stereotyping is the gateway that unlocks the legal argument about binary gender interpretations, so that’s why it’s the one they want to win.

If you’re just going to bank on the argument, legally, that transgender women *are* women, without mitigating the inevitable legal response that… Read more

yes, these are the legal interpretations that caused the obama administration to issue guidance in the first place, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves; the obama guidance was originally issued by the DoE IN RESPONSE TO confusion from schools, so their legal team drafted this guidance based on the lower court rulings… Read more

‘buckle up, buckaroos’ seems appropriate for her appropriation. Read more

yep, because when you live in the midwest, you don’t deserve basic equality, even when you’re claiming those pronouns in the initial email, from the outset of the conversation.

‘sokay, I guess. I live in colorado now, because fuck surviving under authoritarian midwestern rule. Read more

Presuming, again, that there’s ever a guaranteed date that they’ll definitely hear this case again.

Or wait, that’s not how writs of certiorari are granted from the SCOTUS. Read more

you bet! Read more

obviously it’s a weak argument, but it demonstrates the strength that flimsy pretexts like this tend to have when the state affords them the credibility of department/agency legal counsel that gets to apparently both set and then subsequently re-interpret that same policy in the opposite direction, even if that… Read more

As further contextual proof, the email sent to me by the people who administer birth certificates in the state of kansas:

And I’m telling you, as someone who lived in Kansas my entire life, that this information is incorrect. This is the problem, with people just constantly arguing with the actual realities in some states.
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right? Ms. Jenner, have a seat. Read more

this. I really, really wish cis folx would stop suggesting that getting the BC changed is some kind of magic, simple process.

We often go through the dehumanizing ritual of going to the DMV, being misgendered as we slog through the list of employees just to renew our IDs and Driver’s Licenses. When I lived in… Read more

you are 100% wrong on this, they do not want Gavin to be able to use the men’s bathrooms or locker rooms. Read more

that’s the really, really frustrating thing, though.

I get that the appellate courts relied on the administration’s interpretation, which is what makes this worst possible scenario, where every administration is, according to the court, allowed to afford a very wide distance around its own interpretation of sex and… Read more

I mean, probably? but as a trans person who’s brought my own legal cases to EEOC lawyers, let me tell you, the legal entities like ACLU and Lambda Legal do this thing called ‘focusing on impact cases,’ where they cherry pick cases to pursue to the supreme court based on their best chance of success.

which,… Read more

tbh we really dgaf about her opinion, as a collective community. Read more

Not all trans* folx have the financial or legal ability to make this happen. There are a lot of states in which they straight up refuse to amend Birth Certificates. in Kansas, for example, where I was born, this is a process they have personally informed me I will never get done without the intervention of the state… Read more

Yeah because Blizzard wants any part of PR that lets us shoot an 11 year old girl OR her backpack. Read more

I mostly have a combination obsession-with-current-events-because-we-might-die problem combined with constantly feeling too stressed to eat all that much and keep it down comfortably. Read more

I believe that statement qualifies you as POTUS. Read more

Denying her creativity and credibility as an actress took care of that for the history books. Don’t worry, cultural ignorance and learned bigotry is exceedingly efficient at covering its tracks. Read more