The flood gates are wide open and the bills come pouring in.
Okay, item one transgender student athletes. All the court cases I can find we won, the Connecticut lawsuit we won so far and more encouraging is…
More than 275 bills targeting LGBTQ rights flood state legislatures
BY NICK ROBERTSON
January 16, 2024State legislatures have introduced more than 275 bills targeting LGBTQ rights for 2024 sessions, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reported Tuesday, signaling an increased focus on LGBTQ rights among conservative legislators in the new year.
The mark follows more than 500 similar bills in 2023, the ACLU said. The legislation targets issues including gender-affirming care for young people and adults, the ability of students to choose their gender in schools, transgender student athletes and restrictions on LGBTQ speech.
“Transgender people across the country are enduring a historic and dangerous effort to control our bodies and our lives, fueled by extremist politics with the goal of erasing us from public life,” ACLU attorney Harper Seldin said.
“Taken together, these proposals are a blatant effort to deny transgender people the freedom to be ourselves at school, at work, and the support of the medical care many of us need to live,” he said. “We at the ACLU and our nationwide affiliate network stand ready to defend our freedoms and our families from this baseless assault.”
Okay, item one transgender student athletes. All the court cases I can find we won, the Connecticut lawsuit we won so far and more encouraging is…
So the Supreme Court has ruled that we can play sports, however as usually the Republicans don’t care about the law or the courts they want to rally their voter base.US Supreme Court rules in favour of transgender track runner
The decision comes amid a proliferation of anti-trans rights bills promoted by Republican lawmakers across the country.
Al Jazeera
April 6, 2023The United States Supreme Court on Thursday has allowed a 12-year-old transgender girl in West Virginia to continue competing on the girls’ sports teams at her middle school while a lawsuit over a state ban continues.
A majority of the justices refused to disturb an appeals court order that made it possible for the girl, Becky Pepper-Jackson, to continue playing on her school’s track and cross-country teams, where she regularly finishes near the back of the pack.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas issued a dissent, indicating they would have allowed West Virginia to enforce its law against Pepper-Jackson.
Pepper-Jackson is in the middle of the outdoor track season. She had filed a lawsuit challenging the law, the Save Women’s Sports Act, which West Virginia lawmakers adopted in 2021.
Item 2: Bathrooms
The Supreme Court has also ruled in our favor that the Republicans have conveniently forgotten.
Case #1: Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board
ACLU reported...
The Supreme Court today declined to hear Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, allowing lower court decisions in support of transgender students to stand.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit have both ruled that the school board violated Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause by prohibiting Grimm from using the same restrooms as other boys and forcing him to use separate restrooms.
NBC News reported...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined for now to weigh in on the contentious issue of bathroom access for transgender students by rejecting an Indiana school district's appeal.
The court left in place an appeals court ruling that required a middle school in Martinsville, Indiana, to allow a transgender boy to use the bathroom that corresponds with his gender identity.
Many of the laws passed in 2023 were challenged in court, and state and federal courts have struck down attempted bans on gender-affirming care in Arkansas, Indiana, Montana and Florida. Similar bans in Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Texas and Georgia, however, were upheld in court.
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