In a significant win for the Trump Administration, the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion on Thursday afternoon on the Trump Administration’s requirement that passport holders use their sex assigned at birth and that such requirements do not violate equal protection guarantees. While a brief, unsigned opinion issued on the interim docket, it represents a major ruling on the constitutional protections afforded to transgender individuals.
The case began with a challenge to an executive order issued on January 20, 2025, declaring that the federal government would only “recognize two sexes, male and female.” The order instructed the State Department to “require that government-issued identification documents, including passports, visas, and Global Entry cards, accurately reflect the holder’s sex.”
The litigants alleged that the order and underlying policy were a denial of equal protection.
I previously discussed the Supreme Court’s upholding a Tennessee ban on transgender medical treatments for adolescents. One of the most notable aspects of this decision was the concurrence of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, rejecting the claim that transgender status qualifies as a group entitled to heightened scrutiny under the Constitution.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that “The Equal Protection Clause does not resolve these disagreements.” However, the Court stressed that “This Court has not previously held that transgender individuals are a suspect or quasisuspect class. And this case, in any event, does not raise that question because SB1 does not classify on the basis of transgender status.”
In her concurrence, Justice Amy Coney Barrett directly rejected the claim:
The Sixth Circuit held that transgender individuals do not constitute a suspect class, and it was right to do so.3 To begin, transgender status is not marked by the same sort of “‘obvious, immutable, or distinguishing characteristics’” as race or sex.
…Nor is the transgender population a “discrete group,” as our cases require.
…The boundaries of the group, in other words, are not defined by an easily ascertainable characteristic that is fixed and consistent across the group. Finally, holding that transgender people constitute a suspect class would require courts to oversee all manner of policy choices normally committed to legislative discretion.
…The conclusion that transgender individuals do not share the “obvious, immutable, or distinguishing characteristics” of “a discrete group” is enough to demonstrate that transgender status does not define a suspect class.
…The Equal Protection Clause does not demand heightened judicial scrutiny of laws that classify based on transgender status. Rational-basis review applies, which means that courts must give legislatures flexibility to make policy in this area.
While that was a concurrence with only Justice Thomas, I wrote at the time that the concurrence “likely speaks to the view of three or four other members on the Court.”
It now appears that it clearly did represent the majority’s view.
In this opinion, the Court rejects the rulings of U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, a Biden appointee in Massachusetts, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on the injunction of the policy. Both courts would have forced the Trump Administration to issue passports to transgender and nonbinary Americans that reflect the sex designation of their choosing.
However, the Court ruled that “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment.”
In rejecting the equal protection claim, the Court added that there is no evidence that a policy requiring a passport to display the holder’s biological sex can only be the result of “a bare . . . desire to harm a politically unpopular group.” It further found that the challengers are unlikely to prevail under the Administrative Procedure Act as “arbitrary and capricious.”
The Trump administration is thus “likely to succeed on the merits” of its defense against the challengers’ claims, the court wrote. And because Kobick’s order “enjoins enforcement of an Executive Branch policy with foreign affairs implications concerning a Government document,” the court said, the government “will ‘suffer[] a form of irreparable injury’” if the order is not paused.
That produced another fiery dissent from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent, which Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined. Jackson slammed her colleagues:
“The Court … fails to spill any ink considering the plaintiffs, opting instead to intervene in the Government’s favor without equitable justification, and in a manner that permits harm to be inflicted on the most vulnerable party.”
Jackson dismissed the opinion as a type of “back-of-the-napkin assessment” in a cursory opinion. She objected that, not only had the Administration not shown any irreparable harm absent emergency relief, but the challengers “have shown they will suffer concrete injuries if the Government’s Passport Policy is immediately enforced.” She concluded by claiming that “the Court’s failure to acknowledge the basic norms of equity jurisdiction is more than merely regrettable. It is an abdication of the Court’s duty to ensure that equitable standards apply equally to all litigants—to transgender people and the Government alike.”
The opinion substantially reinforced Barrett’s earlier position. While the government had the advantage of a case in an area where considerable deference is given to executive decision-making, the underlying equal protection holding is a major setback for advocates seeking to establish transgender status as protected in the same way as race or religion.
Prof. Turley — Please do not use the phrase “sex assigned at birth.” That sounds too much like the crowd that thinks it’s okay to “identify” however one pleases, rather than by the gender/sex he or she was born. The closest I would get to that phrase is to say, “sex assigned BY GOD at birth,” which is how one’s gender/sex is actually determined. After all, Someone had to make that “assignment at birth,” right?
To be correct, it is the sex assigned at gestation.
RGB, that is even more correct, and it is God who assigns it at gestation. It’s the reality deniers who say “sex assigned at BIRTH,” as though it were an arbitrary occurrence, rather than a careful decision made by God Himself, when it actually happens, but again, it’s God who does the assigning (well, duh!!).
Rabble:
I’d like to argue with someone who says that, who assigned your sex? Your doctor? Your parents? You? If you feel you were unjustly treated at birth, why aren’t you seeking legal action against those who wronged you? Don’t your feelings matter more than truth?
Hey X, where are you ? Join the fray. The geriatrics are going wild. They want to buy vaginas for their grandkids so they can get passports.
The transgender spectrum includes homosexuals and simulants. Both are characterized by the natural binary convention. Neither is transsexual, but ultimately a performative choice.
the people who regularly denounce homosexuals are almost always, without fail, homosexuals.
I have seen a lot of that too, but I assure you that it does not apply to me. Just like a bunch of dudes into macho things, are trying to compensate for feminine tendencies. But, I do not think it is the majority of the people who denounce homosexuality, or the majority of dudes into MMA, or whatever. But it is a substantial minority, IMHO.
The opinion substantially reinforced Barrett’s earlier position.
That Ketanji Jackson Brown is an idiot, yeah, Amy Coney Barrett has etched that point in stone.
A STEM Professor approached me recently on campus about a trans student in his graduate level science course. He stated that last year a male student in his class was using female pronouns, dressing as a woman and identified as a woman. However, this semester the same student is taking another of his courses but is now dressing like a man, using male pronouns and identifies as a gay male. I responded, hence the lie of transgender individuals, unlike gays and lesbians. One day trans folk identify as whatever, and next day they change their minds. Homosexuals dont have that option. They either commit suicide because they cant become heterosexuals or accept their cross as people who stand athwart evolution.
Unlike what Turley may describe, many people in academia do have differing opinions from Left wing mob rule. They just don’t parade them on campus and turn over tables.
Ketanji Brown should be removed from SCOTUS for abject stupidity and her Marxist judicial philosophy vis a vis
The Court … without equitable justification, and in a manner that permits harm to be inflicted on the most vulnerable party.”
She really is a harm to people with a functioning prefrontal cortex.
Follow the science on global warming they scream. Follow the science on transgenderism they scream.
Uh, strike that last sentence cause the science is just plain wrong. The eternal clown show begins but no one is laughing at the same old worn out slapstick. You seen one you seen em all.
Heck of a rant there dude.
His point is valid
Anonymous, I’ve noticed that most of your responses have now been reduced to two sentences or less consisting insults but devoid of any counter argument. I recall the same type of response when someone had been proven wrong as oh yea, you’re just a doo doo head. I remember hearing it on an elementary school playground.
We can now add to all the other things that you’re an expert on a certificate of expertise on doo doo heads. Did you have a fun recess?
TiT,
Well said. When they have nothing, they show us exactly how lower level elevator IQ they have.
Not a rant – just reality.
If reality offends you – that is YOUR problem – not TiT’s
“Heck of a rant there dude.”
Hey dude: he just disagrees with you declaring yourself tranny to justify your desire to go into little girls’ change rooms and hang your junk out on display.
Little bit suspicious that it’s only you male trannies in the news demanding the right to put on those displays, and not your trans opposite sex, the female trannies wanting to put on identical show and tell displays in little boys changerooms.
Chromosomes
TiT there is no science on Transgenderism.
In many of these areas the left actively seeks to ensure that no meaningful effort is ever made to find any biological basis for Trans or for that matter even Homosexuality.
Homosexuality is easier to accomodate – while we have no scientific test for being gay,
we also have no circumstance where protecting a gay persons rights as a person without respect to sexual preference does not protect their legitimate rights.
Conversely applying any protections to TG requires infringing on the rights of others.
In the case of Passports the plantiffs were asking to Compel the Govenrment to speak as they wanted.
To list them as Female or something else, rather than Male. While the government has no free speech rights – contra many on the left. Transgenderism CONSTANTLY requires compelled speech – we are required to refer to “non-binary” people by whatever label they prefer – at the moment. That is compelled speech. A trans person can demand that you call them whatever they wish. But you can not be FORCED to do so – especially by govenrment without violating the first amendment.
I personally have no qualms with gay people or Trans people or non-binaries, and in most instances I would politely try to refer to them as they wish. Though this often creates such a complicated mess – and my memory for people is poor that I am going to get it wrong. One of the reasons that we have pronouns is to make speech less awkward not more.
So that we do not have to remember peoples names.
Regardless if I am dealing with a Trans person that is particular – to the best of my ability I am going to avoid pronouns entirely – and that itself is evidence of the problem. Supposed equal protection for Trans people ALWAYS involves a loss of liberty for everyone else and imposes a positive burden on everyone else.
And that is WRONG.
Might I presume to suggest a book – Sexuality and Homosexuality by Arno Karlen. It came out in 1974 (IIRC), but it was the first honest examination of homosexuality, with copious research. Apparently, it is a “normal” variation of humans, BUT – I do not think that means that it can not be encouraged, groomed, and tolerated to the point where there is an increase in that activity.
I view it as I view autism, mental retardation, and other deformities – something that occurs, but not something that is “normal.” And certainly not something to be encouraged on a societal level. I have never met a homosexual man who wasn’t majorly screwed up in other ways, with OCD-like tendencies being very common.
Anyway, the book is still worth reading, and can be found cheaply, used. FWIW.
I view humans as sexually fluid. Look at what happens in jails and on farms, where there is little interaction with the opposite sex. We all have only one life: live it as one wishes, as long as no one else is hurt.
Passports are tools of international identification, not personal expression. Every nation that participates in global travel systems recognizes two biological sexes for the purpose of matching identity to the traveler in front of them. Other identifiers — self-perceived gender, lifestyle, or identity choices — fall outside that universal standard. A passport’s job is to confirm who a person is under objective criteria that every border agent in the world can verify, not to record how someone feels about who they are.
Of course, as usual, you just make stuff up, or get your information from the voices in your head.
You seem to think that “Every nation that participates in global travel systems recognizes two biological sexes for the purpose of matching identity to the traveler in front of them”
Except that the following countries all allow non-binary gender designations in their passports.
Argentina, Austria, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, India and Nepal.
But a male is a male. No matter what you cut off or pretend.
Each of us is free to express ourselves as we wish.
We are NOT however free to FORCE others to live our delusions.
John
Lets see these crazy fools try this game in the Muslin run country.
This pretty much sums up how we should handle John Say and the rest of the MAGA mob.
Thankfully we don’t have to participate in their delusions.
You’re right that a few countries have added non-binary or “X” options, but that doesn’t change the underlying standard I’m referring to. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which sets the global passport formatting rules used by every nation, recognizes only two biological sexes for identity matching — “M” and “F.” The “X” marker some nations use is an optional national addition, not an international standard for biometric verification.
Border systems worldwide still rely on biological identifiers — facial, fingerprint, and DNA-based data — tied to male or female profiles. So while a handful of nations allow extra designations on the printed page, the global identification infrastructure remains binary because biology is universal, not cultural.
Agreed, it’s a ruse, a ploy to get DNA for passport identification. They’re hunting Jewish people. Any Jewish DNA or DNA linked to known Jewish groups. Right now it’s thumbprint.
In the infamous oj simpson trial Dershowitz and company were there because DNA evidence was being used in the trial.
Sex, gender is currently established by visual confirmation at birth. If a physician is unable to identify, parents can request DNA tests to identify. There are very few such cases.
ATS – and those countries are making a mistake.
Further those make up a smal fraction fo the countries in the world. If the left gets its wish in Israel and the palestinians get a country – do you think that sexes other than Male or Female will be allowed on the passport ?
A passport is not personal self expression. It is not there for you to make a statement. It is a legal document establishing that the passport holder is who they claim to be and that they have the right to cross whatever border they are crossing.
Those of you on the left are under the delusion that EVERYTHING is about your personal desire for self expression.
It is likely that in the future passports will include some form of biometric identifier – at which point sex labels and even names and photos can be dispensed with. But that day is not today.
YOU desire for self expression is not a basis to compell government to be compelled to allow you to perform that self expression as you wish.
If you want to express yourself – do it on social media, or your personal card.
One of the core problems here that is unique to this non-binary nonsense is that for the first time ever some group is demanding that the force of government is used to compel others to speak of or about them only in their prefered way. That is the opposite of a right – that is an infringment on the rights of others.
Most of the western world does not care much how you identify yourself.
Call yourself a giraffe if you wish. If your an adult hack up your body, dress as you please, live your life as you wish
with the caveat that you can not use FORCE against others.
You can no more compel others to call you whatever you wish than you can compel them to turn over their money.
When one group asserting its rights, infringes on the rights of others – it is not RIGHTS that are being asserted but personal self expression.
Exactly right, John. A passport isn’t a canvas for self-expression; it’s a verification document that must hold up under international scrutiny. The moment governments start treating identity as a personal statement instead of a verifiable fact, they undermine the very trust that makes global travel possible. People can live and identify however they wish, but government documents have to operate on objective, universally recognizable standards—or they stop working altogether.
Except that the following countries all allow non-binary gender designations in their passports.
Do the voices in your head have an argument to make that SCOTUS should have forced the Trump administration to go down the Trans furry road because 15 other countries on this planet have?
Oh well done to zoom in and point out that he overgeneralized and there are some exceptions to recognizing the science: human beings are either male or female. Where did you get the list of what – 15 exceptions? – arranged in neat alphabetical order? Wikipedia?
Now to provide some context to what you posted, there’s somewhere around 195 countries on the planet who issue passports, depending on whether you count unique situations like The Vatican who issue passports. So, while 15 countries issue tranny passports, about 180 countries DON’T.
So to be precise, only about 8% of countries facilitate the mental illness of those suffering from Gender Dysphoria psychiatric disorders.
Why should or shouldn’t any sex designation belong on a passport?
Would you live in Gaza with a sex designation other than M or F?
Thats quite the list you compiled there.
We should definitely follow those countries.
I know for a fact that Germany allows self-identification on passports. From the The German government itself:: https://www.germany.info/us-en/service/04-familymatters/self-determination.
SO ?
This is a problem with the left – you confuse your own self expression with a Right that you can force on others and pretend that Government must share your delusion.
Call yourself anything you wish.
But you do not actually get to force others to speak as you demand – any more than they can force you.
There is no difference between your claiming the right to have everyone call you tinkerbell, and everyone else demanding that you be called pervert.
The germans still feel guilty about making jews wear gold stars.
The three liberal justices are angry that biological reality is treated as reality. Science deniers all. Reality deniers all.
the Trump Administration’s requirement that passport holders use their sex assigned at birth
I wish the professor wouldn’t adopt the gobbledygook cultural Marxist language that the left uses to obfuscate. The hospital staff does not “assign” anyone’s sex at birth. They observe it and record it.
Language matters. Orwell knew this, and Marxists know it. It’s time normal people recognize it too and stop giving Marxist reality-deniers unearned language wins.
Helllooo… depends on the hospital.
You sound hysterical.
LOL… No it’s run by fools You can’t be what ever you want
No it does not and that is the point.
While nature screws up on rare occasions and produces actual intersex humans,
in 99.9% of humans you either have a pair of X chromosomes or one X and one Y.
You are either male or female.
That is reality.
No amount of left wing newspeak can change that.
Your chromosomes at best tell us the probability that you will like football, or any of thousands of other preferences – but those are PREFERENCES – they are part of your identity – and they often change over time.
But they are not immutable – they are PREFERNCES they are not science or biology. They are choices.
One of the points that Barrett is making is that the constitution bars government from discriminating against you for immutable characteristics. Your race, and your chromosomes are immutable – you can not change them.
But that protection CAN NOT be extended to choices – or everything turns into a protected class – and that is litterally the intention of the left. The LQB pantheon gets more letters all the time and more and more preferences vie for acceptance as qualifiers for membership in a protected class.
You are free to CHOOSE to live as whatever sex you wish a CHOICE, and you even have the RIGHT to that choice.
But you do not have the ability to change the biological fact that you are male or female. More importantly your RIGHT t make CHOICES does not terminate the RIGHT of others to ignore your CHOICES.
I agree. When people, like Professor Turley, spend too much time around the left, some of the linguistic contagion, connotations, and phrases become ingrained. He is mostly a classical liberal, even though from the left, and in time, he will separate from progressive language entirely. The left tends to change words as they get worn out
Rare W for sanity. Congrats to the Court for recognizing that delusions do not enjoy constitutional protection.
Fascinating clip here of Dr. Oz speaking in the Oval Office about obesity as a cause of dementia, while Trump sits slumped in his chair fast asleep.
https://x.com/MikeNellis/status/198649292139937385
Fast asleep? Did you ask him? I looked at the video, not my impression. What some clowns will post …
Our annony moron is failing so badly, it has to resort to using “what if . . .”
Are you self-identify as “annony moron” now?
Good luck getting that on your passport.
A new sign has been installed at the doorway to the oval office from the outside walkway.
It labels the the door “The Oval Office”. It is just a printout on 3 pieces of paper.
This is standard practice at nursing homes where all the rooms are labelled so that the dementia patients don’t get lost.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-oval-office-sign-white-house-b2859455.html
“This is standard practice at nursing homes …” So, you were in a nursing home and obviously managed to find you room with the help of such a sign?
My goodness am I impressed. Anonymous knows everything about medical procedures on children. Everything about the law. Everything about tariffs (Joe Biden kept the Trump tariffs). Everything about what happens in nursing homes. We should stand in awe of a genius in her own mind.
I accept the honor. You’re welcome!
Touche!
Is Ano george? Remember, he knows it all.
If Trump is demented – we should all hope to be so much more competent than normal in our dementia. o
During the Biden era – the economy got worse. The state of the world got worse. Multiple wars started.
Either Biden or the children actually running the government get the blame.
Now we are seeing the economy improve albeit slowly from the mess we had.
We are seeing all kinds of messes cleaned up – the border is secure. Crime is going down again,
and the Wars Biden started are being ended.
None of this and more proved as easy as Trump promised,.
But it is happening, if slowly.
We are headed towards improvement not decline.
Either Trump is competent – or the people he brought in with him are.
Or both.
I do not really care which.
Democrats are now looking for a scape goat to blame for the charade of Biden’s competence.
As if it is not ALL the people who were stupid enough to claim he was not demented.
That is all the media, and all of you.
It is not like Biden’s incompetence was not obvious.
Those of you who claimed Biden was competent – may not be criminally liable, but you are morally liable.
Further your judgement – on Everything is suspect because you shilled for Biden’s competence.
Either you were lying or stupid. Regardless you are not credible.
There is no reason to beleive you regarding Trump.
But worse still – the problem with the Biden administration was not Biden’s dimensia.
It is that the US was run as if a demented person was in charge.
Few would care if the children of the Biden administration had done a good job.
Trump is not demented. But that really does not matter.
His administration is delivering the promises he made,
and the country and the world are improving – and that is what actually matters.
It is what mattered when demented Joe was president.
It is what matters now.
“Fails to spill any ink …” Jackson must have a clerk who took one English class too many? who always wanted to write fiction?
your moniker gives your age away. you gotta be like, 103!
So?
Dead people can’t dispute dummy.
It won’t matter in the Upside-Down current state of the judiciary. Some district court judge in Maine will overrule the Supreme Court.
No surprise that the grossly unqualified justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. She can’t even define what a woman is, although she did slip up and admit it’s a matter of “biolog[y]” during her confirmation hearing.
Unqualified, hardly. That was no slip-up.
How can Justice Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson offer a decision on the matter when she’s unable to define what a woman is?
You are clueless. Truley laid out the case points. But you’re focused only on vaginas. What is a woman? Is not the questions, its self identification and the demand gov. respect it.
Clue-if a person has a vagina they are a woman. You would know this if….
What if a person has a newly installed vagina? That count? Go wrestle with that for awhile.
Frankly I don’t want to “wrestle with that for awhile” or even for a second.
Only a contrarian partisan hack would argue “what about the people with “newly installed vaginas”. It’s not an option like with a new car.
You just got your a$$ kick.
Wait, one can install a vagina in a car?
HullBobby did not get his a$$ kicked. You did. HullBobby used science, common sense and logic to hand you your a$$. But go ahead, keep denying reality.
Whoa… you call that science, common sense and logic… what planet do you live on.
Why is it that geriatrics all circle the wagons when anons show-up.? Read for yourself, utter calamity.
Seems you guys played cowboy and indians together. When was that 1877?
“Whoa… you call that science, common sense and logic”
Yes,
“what planet do you live on.”
Earth.
Nature creates vagina’s in mamal’s that have XX chromosomes.
The fact that after 300,000 years surgeons can not create a poor forgery
does not alter that. The fact that medical science will likely be able to do even better in the future does not alter that.
If you can create a forged Van Gogh that successfully fools experts – does not alter the fact that it is NOT a van gogh – that it is a forgery – a copy and imitation.
Sometimes we place a high value on an excellent immitation – but it is still never the original.
That has nothing to do with how good a copy it is. It has to do with the fact that it is NOT the actual work of the original artist.
“Why is it that geriatrics all circle the wagons when anons show-up.? ”
Because most of us get wiser as we get older.
“Read for yourself, utter calamity.
Seems you guys played cowboy and indians together. When was that 1877?”
Kudos for spraying creative insults.
They are still not arguments.
UF is correct – you got your a$$ kicked.
That happened because instead of making an argument you choose like a 4yr to lobb insults rather than make arguments.
You are correct that this is not literally about Vagina’s. You can install a vagina today – or atleast something approximating one. And anything you can do today you will be able to do better tomorow.
At the same time this is about Vagina’s or more specifically Natural sexual differences.
Barrett made an excellent argument – equal protection Can only apply to immutable characteristics.
Otherwise every single choice a person makes that other people do not like becomes the basis for a claim of discrimination.
If you choose to murder someone – is the government barred from prosecuting you – because by murdering someone you have joined the historically discriminated against class of murderers ?
While the courts should completely Trash all laws limiting private discrimination as unconstitutional.
Government is a pi$$ poor way of imposing positive morality, further doing so is unconstitutional.
But that is never going to happen.
At the very least SCOTUS Must prevent the equal protection clause the CRA and other government allegedly anti-discrimination statutes from being extended to conduct rather than immutable characteristics.
The moral hazzard of barring discrimination for CHOICES would destroy society in an infinite number of ways.
HullBobby,
Good points. Those of us who are sane and normal, who live in reality, know we should not be forced to accept some peoples delusions. Take all the drugs they want, get surgery, still will not change the fact they were born with a given set of chromosomes. And I am not talking about the one off, genetic mutations.
If I’m not mistaken, you posted that exact comment 17 times in the last 3 years.
“If I’m not mistaken, you posted that exact comment 17 times in the last 3 years.”
And he was correct, 17 times.
And BTW, who decides who is sane and normal? You? A fake farmer?
Any farmer is far better than an anonymous troll or bot.
Not you. You still can’t figure what a women is.
So Farmer has a huge jump on you!
You are a wannabe farmer, but you aren’t. You want to be a man, but you aren’t. Go play with the sheep.
So you are making an argument for anarchy ? Everyone deciding everything however they please ?
Can I Drive a steel pipe through your forehead ? Who gets to decide that is no sane or normal ?
I would suggest thinking before you post stupid comments.
One of the reasons for using logic and reason is it helps prevent you from making a fool of yourself.
“The rule of law” is the consequence of 300,000 years of Human thought on the issues.
While the combined brain power of past human existance does not guarantee that we get everything right, it does incredibly increase the odds, Even more importantly it absolutely assures us that even if we are wrong – we are not so wrong as to be likely to completely obliterate society and the human race.
You are always free to argue that the status quo resulting from thousands of years of human though, wisdom, trial and error and experience is is wrong. But the burden of proof is on you – and it is high.
No need to wrestle. It’s not real.
Actually, “if a person has a vagina,” SHE IS “a woman,” NOT “they are.” Only women have them, not men, which is your point. Please don’t refer to individuals using the “singular they.” That is playing into the hands of those who push that nonsense.
What if someone has a vagina installed?
They is plural.
It’s still not a women. No wonder the loons on the left have lost their minds.
A forged Van Gogh is still not a Van Gogh no matter how good the forgery is.
Politely disagreeing. One of my problems with the trans nonsense is that I and many others frequently use “they” to refer to people when we are nocot sure o f their sex.
That could be because their outward expression is ambiguous. Or it could b someone I must refer to but have not actually met or seen.
That is a perfectly valid use of they – as is refering to multiple people,
The problem with the left is like all their 1984 newspeak mutilating the language makes it impossible to communicate some ideas – and that is actually the point.
As an example if you say words are violence – when speaking – how do you distinguinsh, and when listening – how do you know from what is said what actually occured ?
HAHAHA…
Ah, the Blue Banana has arrived with its morning gobbledygook. What did mom pack for lunch today? Who’s “Truley laid out the case points.”?
lunch? a vagina sandwich.
Margot, best not respond, you come across *itchy. Are you?
Margot,
HAHAHAHAA! Good one!
What we have here, is wokeism is dying, sanity is returning and our far leftist friends are in a panic. All their attempts to force everyone to reject reality and accept their delusions as real have failed.
How marvelous!
Dying? Not at all. If you see this issue as part of a war, then I pity you. Unfortunately that sanity you attest to, I would say yours has left you.
You are just as crazy
Identification does not make it biological
Sex is biological. So believe your craziness that if you believe it is reality.
Ah… a philosophy major!
Is not the questions, its self identification and the demand gov. respect it.
No it’s not the question of demanding the elected government recognize whatever mental illness, fantasy, professional accreditation or anything else you want to self-identify as..
We have REACHED the point where REALITY is a surprise!
Any person claiming to be a different gender/sex should be JAILED for FRAUD. It is PURE Fraud and costs us BILLIONS!
Gender and sex are not the same. They are related, but not the same. Then again, you don’t care do you?
Why don’t you enlighten us . . . . . crickets. . . . .
The meaning of gender has evolved substantially since WW II. Previously it was a grammatical term only. The original root word meant to give birth.
In the 70s it referred to biological sex, as the word sex was limited to something one had with another person.
So what’s your point? You just gave definitions.
Let us know when a man (real man) can have a baby.
Let us know when a (chest-feeding aspirant) man can have an abortion.
This is how a radical liberal would think; they manipulate terminology to get the meaning they want! You, along with all the radical liberals are bat-shit crazy!!
“Gender and sex are not the same. They are related, but not the same. Then again, you don’t care do you?”
You copied and pasted that from what the government agent told Winston in George Orwell’s novel “1984”, the template and operations manual for Woke Marxist Democrats.
When the language is perfect, or revolution will be complete
Actually, gender and sex ARE one and the same. Why on earth does anybody consider them as two separate things?
Fraud! Billions! How is that anyway?
Reality is a surprise, maybe for you .
Jailed huh? I’ll wager in passport your sex is nutjob.
It’s gonna be a bit hard to explain to the border guard that your passport says male but the dress and high heels say female. Got some explaining to do.
What happens when the TSA agent looks at your passport. It say male, but your anatomy speaks female – boobs and all?
Remember, trannies are special class of human; above reality and law.
The things maga nuts fixed on. Tits and ass.
No – just immutable truths and science like XX and XY. It’s the libs who are focussed on sexualizing our culture
Biden’s Bolshevik Birthing Boys get fixated on Tranny Furries (along with the rest of the Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe). I think I prefer to be around the MAGA types who know who actually has nuts and who doesn’t.
All the XX ppl I know wear slacks and flats, ar least for travel.
How many might that be please? By the sound of it, you’re still living in the 60’s.
Ano
still living in the 60’s.
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Yeah, they had common sense.
It’s not a win for some of your fellow Americans. It’s a huge slap in the face to them to have their lives, their rights, their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, challenged and denied by those who project cruelty.
The precedent set by this ruling will be horrendous as other rights and privileges are attacked and cast aside not just for transgender Americans, but for LGB Americans, and other minorities. Where will it lead? Asylums for left-handed people? Where?
It will take decades to undo the damage done to the fabric of our nation, the sanctity of life, liberty, and happiness, of this one ruling. It will become the basis of Jim Crow 2.0 against minorities in America.
“have their lives, their rights, their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, challenged and denied by those who project cruelty.” Whew!
One word on a document destroys lives? Whew.
Nothing has changed for trannies, they can go about pretending to be something unnatural. What they really need is psychiatric care.
Maybe they can all move the California and setup a new state.
Live reality and get over it
I don’t care what you feel you are
If a man is a man you are a man if a man is a woman he is a man
Reversed as well.
What is a man?
In essence, a transgender person was born with one sex, but chooses to live life as the opposite sex, and has had treatment (medication with or without surgery) to facilitate the desired lifestyle. The individual continues to have the chromosomes of his / her sex at birth, as well as other physical characteristics (musculoskeletal, gender-specific organs etc.) consistent with his / her sex at birth.
Of note, Justice Jackson was unable to characterize what a woman is during her confirmation hearing. One suspects that her response was more of a disingenuous attempt at being politically correct than a reflection of ignorance of about at least some of the differences between the sexes.
Well said.
Suze,
Well said and spot on. All the drugs and surgery will not change the chromosomes they had at birth. That is the reality of the situation.
If one took the covid vac, it changes chromosomes. what if the vaccinated grew breasts and penises fell off? is that a new sex?
no… it’s a lawsuit waiting to happen:)
Has that ever happened?
My comment. Folks I was just kidding. But found two dummies.
No, they dummy would be you.
Jezzzzzzzzz
Interesting that you can even utter “sanctity of life” in your progressive argument! The suppositions in paragraphs 2 & 3 are pure, exaggerated hysteria. If anything, the fact that SCOTUS had to even entertain this case shows us how far the left has driven their disturbing minority agenda. SCOTUS is our last resort, and even they are in grave danger of being swallowed by the dysfunctional Left.
Swallowed? Already happened.
Anonymous 7:26 am. Somewhat overwrought are you not. You have extrapolated a minor sliver of light through a cloudy window and tried to make it a supernova, and failed.
What prose.
GEB,
Great comment!
How does correctly marking their sex at birth challenge their pursuit of life or liberty? I won’t address happiness. They will still live. They still have all their liberties. How does it cause Jim Crow2? How does returning to the rules from 3 years ago that existed for over 200 years cause damage to fabric of our nation? Can you explain. maybe with fewer adjectives.
Jeff
Try that with Muslims. They don’t take kindly to trans.
What will the Court decide next? Rachael Dolezal is no longer Black?
Unless she has a case before SCOTUS. Stupid comment.
Bat-shit crazy you are!!!
It’s a huge slap in the face to them to have their lives, their rights, their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness, challenged and denied by those who project cruelty.
The Soviet Democrat cultural Marxists have embraced misogyny of men being superior to women as part of the party platform. Oh…yes… and Trump is a racist Jim Crow 2.0!
Oh the cruelty of denying their demands that they have a right to march into little girls’ changerooms and hang their junk out on display, and perhaps provide an impromptu show and tell session at the same time!
The cruelty of denying them the right to force women to allow them and their testosterone fueled bodies to compete in womens’ sports for scholarships, places on state and national teams, etc.
The cruelty of denying them the right to be hired because they’re a tranny woman, over a far more qualified real woman. Because meritocracy is Jim Crow 2.0
Meanwhile, nothing is stopping them from walking the streets, shopping, etc while dressed as either a hooker or a nun, doing pretty much whatever they want right up to the moment they demand access to women’s changerooms, sports, preferential hiring, etc.
This hyperbolic reply might satisfy your ego, but falls flat when reality is considered.
Here’s your “irreparable harm” scenario, Justice KBK: The US government issues a passport good for international travel, designating that the holder is female or trans female when they are in fact a male according to genetics. The passport holder then enters the foreign country (all outward appearances indicating that they are a female) and commits a serious crime; something that is happening more and more often these days here in Vietnam. But they do so as an apparent male, with a male haircut and no feminine makeup and no feminine clothes or anything else to indicate to the casual observer that they are female. Then, because they entered the country as an apparent female, they simply hide in plain sight by putting their colored hair wig and makeup and dress and false bosoms and other parts of their disguise. Then they easily exit the country, getting an exit stamp in their visa because who’s going to stop this female for what a male did? So then the government of the foreign country discovers how this person evaded detection in their country. My guess is that they will tell the ambassador that they hold them responsible for a false and deceptive identification of the US citizen in their passport. To those who say it’s terrible to imply that trans people are capable of such behavior, I would just say to look at the recent record of mass shootings in the United States, and see how many have been done by trans people
Your point is valid for that specific case alone, and no other.
How then do you protect those trans people (trans women in your scenario) who are completely anatomically female – boobs, vagina, etc? This ruling does not allow for nuance and that is why it should have been ruled differently.
Who said anything about protecting trannies?
Could put them in a zoo, 3 squares and a new wardrobe.
What % of trans women actually have a vagina? Please give us some idea of how many men actually go through with the procedure vs how many men just like to wear ladies clothes or go into ladies private spaces.
You asked the question genius, answer it yourself.
In my world people don’t ask questions to be answered by themselves.
Seems you’re the only one in “your world”. You have to be one of the dumbest things on this blog.
No.. that would be you.
The only thing worse than ad hominem attacks Is a person who is so gutless they remain anonymous while they toss out ad hominem attacks. Get thee back beneath the rock whence thou hast come!
Medical implications also exist, including but not limited to ovarian cancer, which can occur in ovarian rest cells that remain in the peritoneum even after surgery (TAH /BSO).
Homosexual females are trans in orientation but not physical configuration.
By the way, violence by trans people does not come close to violence by non-trans people. Verify it. It’s true. Look over the past 20 years.
Why don’t you prove it, you raised the issue.
There’s a lot of dead school children that would like to dispute your statement that trans people aren’t violent.
Dead people can’t dispute.
Wow, brilliant reply.
You really don’t understand the stupidity of your comments do you? You are no intellectual. Believe us.
Where you sex partner dustoff?
Poor child, did the entire family hate you
Except for the recent teen transgender craze, rhe nimber of transgender Americans has always been minute.
Except on this blog. A lot of crazies here think they’re men.
Sims are characterized by violence committed against selfie, against others, and planned genderhood technicians.
By the way, violence by trans people does not come close to violence by non-trans people. Verify it. It’s true. Look over the past 20 years.
By the way, that old Democrat outrageous fraudulent lie only works for you when that comparison is made only on simple numbers – NOT on the basis of what percentage of the per capita Tranny population has become the nation’s leading mass murderers on a per capita basis.
You want to claim the .1% of the population which are Tranny are less violent than the 99.9% who aren’t Tranny?
Let’s do a fast per capita comparison of the mass murders, school shootings, etc in the years since Biden declared a national celebration of Tranny and Alphabet Sex Pride Tribe hirinig.
Go ahead: continue to claim Tranny mass murders and school shootings are far less on a per capita basis in comparison to those committed by those who don’t claim gender dysphoria.
If the same percentage of normal people committed mass murders and school shootings at the same rate that Trannies do, we’d have dozens of school shootings and mass murders every single day.