I Hope He Knows What He Is Doing

I hope he knows what he is doing because it not it could be a disaster for us!

Biden Admin Doesn't Appeal Texas Anti-Trans Ruling; Ken Paxton's Happy
The administration likely has another strategy in the works to assure that employers don't discriminate against trans workers, legal experts say.
The Advocate
By Trudy Ring
December 19, 2022


President Joe Biden’s administration is not appealing a ruling by an anti-LGBTQ+ federal judge that certain types of workplace discrimination against transgender people are legal in Texas.

That doesn’t mean the administration accepts the ruling, and legal experts say it likely has another strategy in the works, The Dallas Morning News reports. But for now, federal government officials aren’t responding to queries, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who brought the lawsuit that resulted in the ruling, is touting the lack of an appeal as a victory.

In October, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, ruled that the Biden administration’s guidance on implementation of the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision is overly broad. The Bostock ruling, issued in 2020, decreed that anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination is sex discrimination and therefore illegal under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Kacsmaryk objected to the guidance, saying the Bostock ruling applies only to hiring and firing practices and doesn’t mean, as the guidance had it, that companies have to allow workers to use the restrooms corresponding to their gender identity or dress according to that identity, nor do they have to use employee’s preferred pronouns.

I’m not a lawyer I’ve only been around them a lot but I read the Supreme Court ruling and see what you think? This is from Oyze which is made up of Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law…

Discrimination on the basis of homosexuality or transgender status requires an employer to intentionally treat employees differently because of their sex—the very practice Title VII prohibits in all manifestations.

So to me it seems like what Judge Kacsmaryk said is totally BS because the Supreme Court said “sex” includes us! It covers us broadly!

And look at the who appointed the judge and what he did before he was a federal judge, do you think he is a “little” biased?

Kacsmaryk, who was previously an attorney with right-wing legal group First Liberty Institute, has issued other ultraconservative rulings. He recently held that a federal program providing grants for voluntary and confidential family planning services violated parental rights because the services are available to adolescents. He also blocked the Biden administration’s effort to end the “remain in Mexico” policy, which was started under Trump and requires some non-Mexican asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their cases are heard. Texas and Missouri have filed suits seeking to retain the policy.

And since I wrote this on Monday the judge is again in the news.

Federal judge rules against HHS program allowing teens confidential birth control
The Hill
By Nathaniel Weixel
December 21, 2022


A federal judge in Texas set aside a rule allowing teenagers to access birth control from providers participating in a federal family planning program without their parents’ permission.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk on Tuesday likely means that teenagers who receive care through the Title X family planning program will no longer be allowed to do so confidentially. 

Kacsmaryk ruled that the Title X program, which provides free and confidential contraception, cancer screenings and other services to millions of low-income individuals, violates the constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Title X clinics are often the only ongoing source of health care and health education for the people who use them.

Kacsmaryk, nominated by former President Trump in 2017 and confirmed in 2019, is a former attorney for a Christian legal advocacy group who helped businesses fight against contraceptive mandates.

This judge puts the Bible before the Constitution.