What laws can’t change

Ah there it is.

No actually it doesn’t. A piece of paper can make something legal, but it can’t make a woman in the sense of turning a man into a woman (which of course is the sense Hines has in mind). It can create a legal fiction, but the fiction remains a fiction.

It’s odd that an adult academic either doesn’t grasp this, or pretends not to grasp it.

Laws are laws, but not all laws are good laws. There is such a thing as civil disobedience. Trump is issuing executive orders as a dog sheds fleas, but he can’t change reality. He can’t move Greenland to somewhere between Oklahoma and Arkansas. He can’t make Musk’s latest rocket unexplode. Sally Hines can’t make men into women by citing a law.

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