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When there are none discrimination laws in place the law should block a ruling like this one…

Judge rules against Pensacola woman in transgender discrimination suit
Pensacola News Journal
By Kevin Robinson
June 19, 2018

A judge has ruled against a Pensacola woman who claims she was discriminated against because she is transgender.

The suit was based around allegations that Nevaeh Love, a woman who was assigned male at birth, was singled out and asked to move from her seat at an adults-only fundraising event. Event organizers testified that Love's presence at the front of the venue made the performers uncomfortable, and she was asked to sit further back.

In a case presented directly to Judge Edward P. Nickinson in April, the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida argued that denying Love her seat of choice because she is transgender was a violation of the Florida Civil Rights Act.

In a final order filed last week, a judge wrote that in most circumstances — say, if Love had been denied a seat at a restaurant, a room at a hotel or an opportunity at her place of employment — her case could have merit.

Why did the judge rule against her?

The fundraising event featured a troupe of male exotic dancers and was advertised as open to "ladies only." The dancers purportedly "expressed objections to performing their show, which involved some degree of disrobing and mingling with the patrons, if a person they considered to be male was to be in the audience," the order said.
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Nickinson's order continued, "Here, the dancers clearly did not consider Ms. Love to be a 'woman' for purposes of their performance, and the court sees no reason why, for that limited purpose, Ms. Love should be able to force those dancers to think otherwise."

So the judge based his ruling on the fact that trans women are not women.