How a Court Decision Might Make Pending LGBT Legislation Obsolete

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How a Court Decision Might Make Pending LGBT Legislation Obsolete

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-knoll/solution-to-conservative-_b_7674610.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender

Huffington Post Blog
Travis Knoll History PhD Student, Duke University.
Posted: 12/27/2015 8:37 pm EST

On December 15, U.S. Federal Judge Dean Pregerson ruled that the line between gender and sexual orientation discrimination "does not exist." The ruling, addressing discrimination against a pair of lesbian basketball players at Pepperdine University, has the potential to put sexual orientation under the umbrella of established civil rights laws. Such a move might render stalled legislation on non-discrimination moot and provide a firmer legal basis for the advancement of both legal rights and social acceptance.
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Let's hope Mr. Knoll's analysis is correct when he says:

The questioner could now even more easily paint Ryan Anderson's rhetoric as not a sophisticated disagreement on complex sexual identities, but nothing more than gender discrimination, a vestige of a repressive patriarchal society.