Thank you for the explainer. It’s one thing to read a random journalist’s account that just highlights the basics. But to learn at the hands of a trans journalist, not just explaining the facts of the case but also their lived experience, is so much more powerful.
The SCOTUS aren't brains in vats operating in a vacuum. The Christofascists packed it full of other Christofascists to carry out an ideological agenda. They even went so far as to publish many documents about & have been running a smorgasbord of annual or more frequent conferences on ramming their ideological agenda down everyone's throats by taking over the legal system, putting it all into law & having cops enforce it.
Tour de force write-up, truly. Stunning in its historical treatment of at bottom is sexual discrimination in a variety of guises, and how SCOTUS has incrimentalized relief under the Constitution, and by the same token removed protection by riding roughshod over *stare decisis*.
The trans community is now enduring in turn its trials by ordeal, both within the legal and public spheres, and no one can gainsay that troubled times await, tant pis.
Ok, I don't know if this post gives me hope or takes it away, but it sure provides context that is always missing whenever people talk about important cases. Thanks, CD!
Crooks..
https://substack.com/profile/155628850-impoed/note/c-80900865?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2knnzm
Thank you for the explainer. It’s one thing to read a random journalist’s account that just highlights the basics. But to learn at the hands of a trans journalist, not just explaining the facts of the case but also their lived experience, is so much more powerful.
The SCOTUS aren't brains in vats operating in a vacuum. The Christofascists packed it full of other Christofascists to carry out an ideological agenda. They even went so far as to publish many documents about & have been running a smorgasbord of annual or more frequent conferences on ramming their ideological agenda down everyone's throats by taking over the legal system, putting it all into law & having cops enforce it.
Wait, wait, wait, hold the phone: You went to *law school*?
Yes.
Don't get too excited. I never actually practiced.
Awww.
Tour de force write-up, truly. Stunning in its historical treatment of at bottom is sexual discrimination in a variety of guises, and how SCOTUS has incrimentalized relief under the Constitution, and by the same token removed protection by riding roughshod over *stare decisis*.
The trans community is now enduring in turn its trials by ordeal, both within the legal and public spheres, and no one can gainsay that troubled times await, tant pis.
Ok, I don't know if this post gives me hope or takes it away, but it sure provides context that is always missing whenever people talk about important cases. Thanks, CD!
Yeah, it's definitely more complicated than "All equal protection is about to be reversed."