Far-right activists have been waging a nationwide campaign of harassment against L.G.B.T.Q. people and events in which they participate. Drag queen story events are similar to other public readings for children, except that readers dress in a highly stylized and gender-fluid manner and often read books that focus on acceptance and tolerance. This month alone, drag queen events were the target of protests in Grand Prairie, Texas; San Antonio; Fall River, Mass.; Columbus, Ohio; Southern Pines, N.C.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Lakeland, Fla.; Chicago; Long Island; and Staten Island.
That's where I learned to ski. Okemo Mt.Ludlow
Okemo is Ludlow, VT, above story is Ludlow, MA.That's where I learned to ski. Okemo Mt.
My bad. Didn't know there was a Ludlow, MA.Okemo is Ludlow, VT, above story is Ludlow, MA.
I'm from West Springfield and the Mrs. is from Wilbraham, both near Ludlow, MA.
Tis why we have the conversation.My bad. Didn't know there was a Ludlow, MA.
In holding the bathroom policy unconstitutional, the district court never made a finding that Adams is a “biological boy,” as the dissent claims, which is the classification that the School Board uses to restrict access to the male bathrooms and the classification that Adams is challenging. The district court looked to Adams’s gender identity—not Adams’s biological sex—for purposes of evaluating the bathroom policy. And even the dissent acknowledges, as it must, that gender identity is different from biological sex.
Thus, despite the dissent’s suggestion, the district court did not make a finding equating gender identity as akin to biological sex. Nor could the district court have made such a finding that would have legal significance. To do so would refute the Supreme Court’s longstanding recognition that “sex, like race and national origin, is an immutable characteristic determined solely by the accident of birth.” Frontiero v. Richardson (1973); see also Immutable, Oxford English Dictionary (2d ed. 1989) (“Not mutable; not subject to or susceptible of change; unchangeable, unalterable, changeless.”).
If you are born with a prostate, you are a male, regardless of how you want to dress and/or act.“sex … is an immutable characteristic determined solely by the accident of birth”
First, you’ll be encouraged that at least seven out of twelve judges on the Court found that Drew Adams is a biological girl, period. Her “gender identity” is completely different from whether under the law she is a girl or not. Boys bathrooms are for boys, not for girls who dress like boys:
Next, the Court cited the Frontiero case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court said that “sex … is an immutable characteristic determined solely by the accident of birth:”
In saying sex is immutable, they meant it cannot be changed. The majority seemed intrigued by the concept of “gender fluidity,” which seems to imply something more “mutable” than “immutable.” In saying that sex is determined SOLELY by birth, they meant you can’t change it next Wednesday based on how you are feeling at the moment, or for any other reason. The Court explained, “There is simply no alternative definition of ‘sex’ for transgender persons as compared to non transgender persons.”
The Court wrote that biological differences between the sexes was the fundamental reason for constitutional and Title IX protections, holding “To fail to acknowledge even our most basic biological differences . . . risks making the guarantee of equal protection superficial, and so disserving it.”
In what should be, but isn’t, entirely uncontroversial, the Court also recognized that non-trans kids have protectable privacy rights in the bathroom, explaining that “the protection of individual privacy will occasionally require some segregation between the sexes is beyond doubt.” The majority rejected the lower court’s argument that Drew didn’t violate anyone’s privacy because she just used a private stall and then left the bathroom. But the Court disagreed, explaining the boy’s bathroom also has undivided urinals, and students change clothes in there.
In other words, ALL students’ privacy begins at the bathroom door.
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If Roxanne Tickle wants to be taken seriously, she should have used another last name. Johnson perhaps?'Giggle for Girls' CEO sued by biological male after being prevented from using female-only social media app
An Australian trans-identified male is suing a female-only social media platform for alleged discrimination after being barred from using the service in September 2021.
According to the Guardian, Roxanne Tickle, a male who identifies as a woman, filed the federal court lawsuit on December 22, claiming to have been unlawfully barred from using the Giggle for Girls social media app. A further complaint against Giggle CEO Sall Grover in the lawsuit is that she believes “transgender women, including the Applicant, to be male.”
The trans-identified male is seeking damages, complete access to the female-only online space, and a written apology from Grover.
“I believe that I am being discriminated against by being provided with extremely limited functionality of a smartphone app by the app provider compared to that of other users because I am a transgender woman,” Tickle stated in an earlier complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission filed in 2021.
Or go for broke and change it to Tess Tichol.If Roxanne Tickle wants to be taken seriously, she should have used another last name. Johnson perhaps?