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Title: Grave Legal Danger: Will the Grimm Case Be Our “Plessy”?
Post by: suzifrommd on September 15, 2015, 05:46:32 AM
Post by: suzifrommd on September 15, 2015, 05:46:32 AM
Grave Legal Danger: Will the Grimm Case Be Our "Plessy"?
By Suzi Chase, 9/15/15
https://www.susans.org/2015/09/14/grave-legal-danger-will-the-grimm-case-be-our-plessy/
One could imagine perhaps, a federal court deciding that transgender people's identities were dictated by their biological sex — that regardless of how severe our dysphoria, how committed we were to our transition, how completely we lived our lives as a member of our identified gender, legally and constitutionally we were still a member of our sex assigned at birth.
That's exactly what looks about to happen.
By Suzi Chase, 9/15/15
https://www.susans.org/2015/09/14/grave-legal-danger-will-the-grimm-case-be-our-plessy/
One could imagine perhaps, a federal court deciding that transgender people's identities were dictated by their biological sex — that regardless of how severe our dysphoria, how committed we were to our transition, how completely we lived our lives as a member of our identified gender, legally and constitutionally we were still a member of our sex assigned at birth.
That's exactly what looks about to happen.