All the protections
So that’s women’s rights gone.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has become the first appellate court in the country to find that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act, after a transgender woman sued Fairfax County for housing her with men during her time in jail.
Oh ffs. Gender dysphoria may be a disability; it doesn’t follow that men get to force themselves on women.
“Being transgender is not a disability,” the court wrotein an opinion issued Tuesday, but “many transgender people experience gender dysphoria,” or distress over the discrepancy between their identity and their assigned sex. “A transgender person’s medical needs are just as deserving of treatment and protection as anyone else’s.”
But men forcing themselves on women isn’t a medical need.
The decision in the case of Kesha Williams comes amid a wave of legislation across the country limiting transgender youths from accessing medical treatment, discussing sex and gender in school, or playing sports and using bathrooms that match their identity.
The issue isn’t sports and bathrooms that “match their identity,” it’s boys and men destroying women’s sports and taking over their spaces.
“When states have cut transgender people off from basic protections under law, we have seen federal courts step in to correct that,” said Jennifer Levi, director of the Transgender Rights Project at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, which wrote an amicus brief in Williams’s case.
What about women’s basic protections under law?
The trouble is you can’t have both. Either women get to keep those protections, or they are forced to lose them to men who claim to have “gender dysphoria.” It’s not obvious that men need those basic protections more than women do, even if they have “gender dysphoria.”
What a bizarre ruling. Being transgender is not a disability, but the feeling of unease coming from a mismatch between gender identity and biological sex is, so that gets protected?!? The reductio ad absurdum is that if someone says they are transgender, but do not experience dysphoria, they are not protected. That is simply nonsensical.
“gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act”
““Being transgender is not a disability,” the court wrote”
u wot mate
Ah, these are the so-called tucutes. The people that believe that you don’t need gender dysphoria to be trans; that you can be trans without having gender dysphoria, and, presumably, you can be gender dysphoric without being trans. Of course, the only criterion for either gender dysphoria or transness is self-ID, so men would still get to force themselves into women’s spaces.
In fact… it could be like this.
TRANS “WOMAN” WITHOUT GENDER DYSPHORIA: I do not have a disability, but I am a woman, so I get to be in women’s spaces.
GENDER-DYSPHORIC MAN, WHO IS NOT TRANS: I am not a woman, but I get to use women’s spaces in order to take care of my disability.
(And ugh, “take care of” makes me think that he’ll … ugh, I won’t say it.)
Get this shit to SCOTUS and it’ll be sorted out tout suite…