Posted on 06/01/2025 6:41:31 AM PDT by appeal2
I’m a retired New York attorney.
For decades, renewing my attorney registration was straightforward. You paid the fee, confirmed your status, and moved on with your life.
Not anymore.
Now, in 2025, the Unified Court System has decided they need to know whether I identify as transgender, nonbinary, intersex, or “none of the above.”
I wish I was joking. See for yourself:
This is not just a form. It’s an ideological loyalty test disguised as “data collection.”
These questions are optional but it’s in little tiny lettering — and I might have filled it out had I not read the fine print. And let’s be real: if you decline to answer, that gets recorded too.
Why does the State of New York need to know how I identify to let me remain a retired attorney in good standing?
When did a basic license renewal become an episode of identity politics?
It’s not about tolerance—it’s about forced affirmation.
It’s not about inclusion—it’s about compliance.
And if you’re not paying attention, this is exactly how they normalize thought policing: one check box at a time.
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🧠 Final Thought:
This isn’t about whether you’re gay, straight, or Martian. It’s about whether the state has the right to demand ideological conformity to access your career, your certifications, or even your livelihood.
Today it’s lawyers.
Tomorrow it’s your accountant.
Then your doctor.
This is soft-totalitarianism in a dress shirt.
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New low.
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Intergalactic aliens better think twice before coming here. They will be subject to lots of ideological conformity pressures. ;)
Of course, the race and ethnicity (read: Hispanic) stuff already saturates all home sales and mortgages, car sales, and job applications at firms of any size, largely by law or regulation.
“The banality of evil” - Hannah Arendt
Thankful I did not have to make known all this information when I applied for my first job, or I might have acccidentally applied for something that paid a living wage.
What if you check ALL the boxes?
So appeal2 wrote the blog and the book?
Be tempting to lie on the form, but if you’re caught, they’ll disbar you.
AMAZING what’s become of the country.
Sexual Orientation: Other - Hexadecimal
Now, we get asked additional questions. If you happen to be one of the lucky ones, you get sent a highly detailed and rather invasive questionnaire delving into a lot of personal information having nothing to be with representation.
This can happen at any time outside of the Decennial US Census. Known at the American Community Survey, anything with the word "community" in it smacks of Obama and his ilk.
“Sexual Orientation”
Why is that question even being asked?
The UK is going Muslim. If that question was asked in the UK, a homosexual barrister/solicitor might get killed in the future.
That ain’t nothing, the last time I filled out ATF Form 4473 - Firearms Transaction Record, I was asked if I identified as male, female or non-binary. I checked all three!
You chose to practice in NY. You are old enough to have seen this coming.
This is like a Jew moving into a gazan neighborhood and expecting to be treated like a human being.
How many of you would hire a “nonbinary” lawyer?
“You chose to practice in NY. You are old enough to have seen this coming.
This is like a Jew moving into a gazan neighborhood and expecting to be treated like a human being.”
I’m visiting in the Los Angeles area.
Two pictures of Adam & Eve were captioned as being portrayed as Caucasians due to beliefs at the time of the paintings were created.
Separation of the Bar and State!
Gotta wonder why the “Ethnicity” question is so focused. There is really no allowance to express anything other than “Hispanic, yes or no”. Pretty myopic, I’d say.
If a person wants to identify being grouped as American, as urban, as country, or more traditionally as Afro-American, as Euro-American, as Asian-American or hundreds of other “not Hispanic” categories, you’re SOL, unappreciated and unimportant, faceless and without a voice.
Sometime in the early 2000s, at a doctors appointment, a form I was filling out asked if I had any firearms in my home. I did not answer the question. Then, back in 2016, I went to an urgent care facility due to spider bites on the back of neck and upper back. One of the questions on the form was if there was violence or arguments within my home. Even though I was living by myself at this time (my wife passed away in 2015), I also did not answer this question. Both times, I informed the admin staff that it was none of their business. Since the 2016 urgent care visit, I have not seen those questions on any medical forms I had to fill out.
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