Judges are all over the road on transgender issues. Too bad they can’t tell a man from a woman.
Fox: “A federal judge has blocked a directive from President Joe Biden’s administration that allowed transgender workers and students to use school restrooms matching their gender identities.
It also allowed transgender athletes to join sports teams corresponding with their chosen genders.
The directive was blocked by Judge Charles Atchley Jr. of the Eastern District of Tennessee, a Trump appointee, after a coalition of 20 Republican attorneys general sued last year, Reuters reported..
The states also argued the Biden administration’s Justice Department, the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission — the defendants in the case — improperly justified the bathroom directive through the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County.”
BREAKING REPORT: U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. BLOCKS BIDEN'S LGBTQ GUIDANCE that Allows Transgender in Girls’ Sports and Bathroom Access…
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) July 17, 2022
Judge Atchley concurred, saying in his opinion the states “cannot continue regulating pursuant to their state laws while simultaneously complying with Defendants’ guidance.”
Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor called the decision “a major victory for women’s sports and for the privacy and safety of girls and women in their school bathrooms and locker rooms,” per the report.
In related news, again from Fox “A transgender woman incarcerated at a women’s only prison in New Jersey has been moved to another facility after impregnating two female inmates earlier this year, according to a local report.
Demi Minor, 27, was transferred last month from the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility in Clinton to Garden State Youth Correctional Facility, a prison for young adult offenders located in Burlington County, Dan Sperrazza, a spokesman for the state’s Department of Corrections (NJDOC), told NJ.com.
Sperrazza said Minor, who is serving a 30-year sentence for manslaughter, is currently the only woman incarcerated at the facility and was placed in the vulnerable unit. He couldn’t comment further on Minor’s housing situation due to NJDOC’s privacy policies, the paper reported.”
And in Tennessee a restaurant owner wants adult men to be in bathrooms with girls. “I’m happy that the court stopped this invasive and decisive legislation for now and am hopeful this leads to a permanent ban of an unconstitutional violation of my freedom of speech rights,” restaurant owner Bob Bernstein said.
The court’s decision recognized that “Restaurants and performing spaces are businesses, but that is not all they are; they are also among the most important physical locations in which communities — so often consigned, in this era, to electronic space — can gather and grow together in a manner rooted in a particular neighborhood, in a particular city, in a particular state. The plaintiffs have presented evidence that they have strived to be welcoming spaces for communities that include transgender individuals and that the signage required by the Act would disrupt the welcoming environments that they wish to provide. That harm would be real, and it is not a harm that could simply be remedied by some award at the end of litigation.”
“This law is bad for businesses in Tennessee and most importantly harmful to transgender people,” said Hedy Weinberg, ACLU of Tennessee executive director. “We are glad the court saw that this law is likely unconstitutional and hope that the state gives up the wasteful effort to defend discrimination and a violation of the First Amendment.” The legal fight continues.
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Why are Democrats so interested in destroying our biological identity- God made man and women but, we want Unisex until rapes occur in these heterosexual bathrooms. I will visiting any said locations
?..Oregon Rep. Mike Nearman expelled from Legislature in historic 59-1 rebuke
Updated Jun 11 By Hillary Borrud | The Oregonian/OregonLive
The Oregon House voted 59-1 Thursday to expel Rep. Mike Nearman, the first time it has ejected a sitting representative.
Lawmakers removed Nearman because he let far-right demonstrators, some of whom were armed, into the Capitol on Dec. 21 while lawmakers were holding a special session. The Capitol was closed to the public due to the pandemic and remains so.
That means his seat representing a rural district west of Salem will likely sit vacant for the remainder of the legislative session, which must wrap up by June 27., 2021; Surveillance video captured Nearman, a four-term Republican, opening a door and exiting the building, stepping aside so that demonstrators waiting at the entrance could quickly slip into the building. The demonstrators clashed with police who attempted to expel them from the building and allegedly sprayed police with bear mace. Rep. Nearman was seen on security cameras opening a side door for the violent demonstrators on December 21 of last year as lawmakers were meeting in an emergency session. By that point, the crowd had broken windows, scuffled with police, and assaulted journalists. The final straw was a leaked video that showed Nearman actively planning “Operation Hall Pass” just days before the breach, instructing a group on what door he would open and how to reach him.
I Thank God that at least “some” Federal Judges can still be described as having Commonsense & Decency – attributes largely missing from the Demonrat clique !
The world has gone mad. And you can quote me.