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Conservative Activists Know the Trans Sports Ban Case Isn't Just About Sports
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (656+ words) Balls and Strikes In a pair of cases decided on Tuesday, the Republican majority on the Supreme Court restricted the ability of transgender young people to participate in school sports with their peers. The people who will suffer most immediately…...
The Supreme Court's Latest Anti-Trans Decision Is Laced With Condescension For Women Athletes
18+ hour, 46+ min ago (829+ words) Balls and Strikes In a country awash with World Cup enthusiasm, it is hard to miss how much sports matter to athletes for reasons that go far beyond the outcome in any single competition. Yet the conservative supermajority at the…...
The Supreme Court Keeps Embracing Convenient Lies to Excuse Rank Bigotry
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (438+ words) In March, Justice Amy Coney Barrett gave a talk at the Library of Congress in which she urged Americans to take responsibility for upholding the rule of law and legal institutions. "Respect for the law, reverence for the Constitution, really…...
Trans Kansans are Right to Distrust Federal Courts
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (255+ words) The same day the law went into effect, two transgender Kansans sued exclusively on state constitutional grounds, alleging in the Douglas County District Court that SB 244 "violates the Kansas Constitution's guarantees of personal autonomy, privacy, equality under the law, due…...
A Law School Dean Signed a Brief Defending Trans Rights. She Lost Her Job Because of It
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (407+ words) The installation of university leaders'deans, provosts, and presidents'usually happens without incident. By the time a university has announced new leadership, the vetting has long since receded in the rear view mirror; it's time for champagne and new fundraising campaigns. What…...
How the Conservative Movement's Anti-Trans Crusade Brought the Supreme Court to Heel
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1200+ words) Balls and Strikes In October 2019, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Bostock v. Clayton County, a case about whether a federal civil rights law that prohibits employment discrimination based on "sex" extends to gay and transgender Americans, too. On paper,…...
John Roberts Wouldn't Recognize an Anti-Trans Law If It Slapped Him in the Face
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (868+ words) Balls and Strikes The Supreme Court heard oral argument today in Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. BPJ, a pair of cases about state laws that prohibit transgender women and girls from playing school sports on women's and girls' teams. Such…...
This Is the History of Anti-Trans Bigotry Amy Coney Barrett Doesn't Want to Talk About
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (395+ words) Balls and Strikes In December 2024, when the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti, Justice Amy Coney Barrett claimed to have no knowledge about how the government treats trans people. "At least as far as I can think…...
Little v Hecox: Anti-Trans Activists Know This Supreme Court Will Give Them What They Want
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (333+ words) Hecox started this lawsuit as a 19-year-old freshman in April 2020. Today, she's 25, and as she gets ready to graduate in May, she's had enough. "I am afraid that if I continue my lawsuit, I will personally be subjected to harassment…...
The Conservative War On Marriage Equality Never Needed Kim Davis
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (1112+ words) The Supreme Court rejected Davis's bid to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges. But in Texas and elsewhere, anti-gay activists are chipping away at the right that case protects. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the case of someone you'd probably…...