Yeah the case was settled in the last days of Biden’s term in early January. I’m sure Trump doesn’t like even allowing use of preferred pronouns.
So if a teacher couldn’t be forced to do so during Biden’s presidency … well that’s not something Trump will undo when he actually wants to go a step further.
There are intersex people, but the frequency is apparently debatable
I know someone with Klinefelter - a relative - and there’s no doubt of his sex or gender. The only way it seems to have outwardly influenced his life (I don’t know everything) is that when he and his wife had kids he did it with some medical support.
curious, if anyone knows if the judge is so well versed, because h le was assigned the case and studied up on it
or assigned the case because he seems to have a deep knowledge of the topic?
I would imagine the judge is assigned randomly and asked his clerk to give him a two paragraph summary of the science. (Maybe a page.)
To be fair, that’s more than a lot of judges would bother with.
That particular court gets some pretty technical cases coming across its docket. Judge Reyes filled the vacancy created when Judge Kollar-Kotelly retired, and Kollar-Kotelly heard plenty of geeky (and not-so-geeky) cases that caught my attention.
Two addenda:
The video: TikTok - Make Your Day
“Preferred Pronouns for me, not for thee!”
She should’ve said “Madam Chairwoman” just for extra emphasis.
US moves to permanently exclude from entry individuals whose gender at birth doesn’t match the gender on their travel documents.
The headline is slightly out of sync with the text of the article, but…
The US is really going full neanderthal.
not sure if they would or could, but would love to have the IOC pull the 2028 games from the US
Permanently for the next four years
odds are hevwould try to pass a permanent ban, making the next rational administration reverse it
That’s an interesting thought. That would be embarrassing for Trump. This was written about the 2020 Olympics, but goes into the contract between the IOC and the host city.
One of the reasons for the IOC to rescind the award of the host city is boycott. This didn’t happen during the widely boycotted Olympics in 1980 (Moscow) or 1984 (Los Angeles). (It might not have been in those contracts… no clue.). But they could now.
Would enough countries and athletes consider a boycott to make that happen? I have no ill will to the good people of LA but I’d love to see Trump embarrassed in this way.
Also if safety is a concern… potentially relevant.
Permanently until rescinded (it’s premature to count on a meaningful change in regime in 2029), but with risk of de-recension unless the recension is done in such a way that it can’t be reversed at the whim of a President.
This is a concern of the broader queer population, but is being started with trans employees so I’m sticking it here. Note that more people lost their jobs in the original lavender scare than in the red scare.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer process transgender identity data in order to comply with President Trump’s executive order, agency representative Melissa Dibble told STAT on Tuesday.
The decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems, including the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Among Transgender Women and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. There is a major dearth of data on trans and nonbinary people in the U.S., so these survey systems that include them serve as critical resources for researchers.
The shift already has implications for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, a singular source of behavioral health data that’s collected from high schoolers every other year. Researchers depend on it to track health behaviors including sexual behavior, substance use, mental health, and more. State and local governments can use the data to develop youth initiatives and policies. It’s the only nationally representative data on trans youth.
The Pentagon plans to kick out currently serving transgender service members who don’t meet specific requirements under its new policy, according to official guidance made public in a Wednesday court filing.
What are the specific requirement that trans service members would have to fulfill?
A service member will also be able to be retained if they demonstrate “36 consecutive months of stability” in their sex with no “clinically significant distress or impairment,” if they can prove they have “never attempted to transition to any sex other than their sex” and if they are willing to adhere to “all applicable standards” relating to their sex.
Oh. Trans service members who are not trans are willing to stay. “don’t meet specific requirements” is a terrible way to describe that.
Data begets information begets information begets wisdom. So let’s kill that tree off at the roots.
Geez, even if I disagree with a concept, I think it’s hard to argue against someone collecting data on the topic. I mean, what if I’m wrong?
It basically carves out a “loophole” made of bigotry for virtually nonexistent people who “detransitioned” from being openly trans without ever attempting to physically transition and “recant” being trans.
While detransitioning may exist, the alt-right has willfully developed a myth of the countless people who detransition after being misled into believing they were trans, or after being “mutilated” as young children. The many people who detransition after being indoctrinated by the education system proves that being trans is just a choice that people get tricked into doing.