Posted on 06/18/2020 9:11:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Court is demanding that we treat a verifiable fact as if it is fluid. That we endorse, mouth and salute an untrue thing...or else...
I vote for or else...
The Supreme Court has morphed into the Subservient Court...subservient to the leftists.
Pardon a stupid question. I’m called into the boss’s office and fired. “You can’t get away with that, you’re just firing me because I’m gay!”
“You’re not gay. I’ve known you for years.”
“How dare you. And over the years, all those awful jokes about gay people you’ve told me...”
“That was YOU telling those jokes!”
“well, I just remember you laughing at them.”
Now, how would a company have a defense against this? If homosexuality is based on certain behaviors, couldn’t anyone claim this status? It’s upside down now!
The absurdity of applying “civil rights” protections to people based on SELF-IDENTIFIED characteristics will quickly become obvious to even the most obtuse and partisan misfits wearing black robes in Washington.
They aren’t illegal. They just can’t stop men from claiming they’re women and qualifying for them.
Trial Lawyers are salivating.
What about a transgender person that is always brooding around the office and wearing their attitude on their shoulders, negatively impacting other employees (or customers)? Can you fire them for that?
I would. The point is they impact customers and other employers negatively. My Customers and employees are more important to me.
Well, you can't legally fire them just because your employees or customers don't like them. To make this concrete, let's say you had a transgender hostess that the customers of your family diner simply didn't like, and so stopped coming. And they told you that as they left.
You could not legally fire or transfer that hostess for that reason.
I understand that's different than the question of a transgender employee who walked around with an attitude...but good luck proving that. And I say that as someone who has tried employment discrimination cases.
Not illegal, but basically meaningless, since if you are a man, you can just decide to “identify as a woman” that day, apply for those benefits, and you cannot be denied on the basis that you have a penis.
I guess it also means that homes for battered women need to allow men.
It reached the point of comedy in Canada a couple of years ago when some dude identified himself as a “woman” just to get a lower rate on his auto insurance. Seriously. LOL.
If I go in to work tomorrow self-identifying as the CEO, that's not grounds for firing me?
I'm thinking of self-identifying as a Supreme Court Justice and delivering edicts from their bench.
Some employers will use contract workers and contract teams (rated and paid on performance) to insulate themselves from lawsuits.
There is nothing to keep that from being effective.
and it’s nobody’s fault but, no wait, it’s anyone’s fault who bent over in the first place...pardon the pun.
from our last president to congress to corporations to individuals to higher education.
though the president and congress and higher education are happy with the results.
If they are interchangeable, or exactly equal, then no man can be fired/sued for sexual harassment. No man can lose his home/car/kids in a divorce. Everyone must register for selective service. All talk about glass ceiling and 76 cents to the dollar will stop. There will not be separate teams for men/women. Hysterics will have to stop yelling about “first woman president.”
Not only, but female AND male sports are illegal. We are told by this decision there are no sex differentiated traits OR behaviors. It is not that the sexes are undifferentiated, by this logic there are no sexes as a matter of law. One may not claim to be a man or a woman if that self designation creates offense. The court has caught itself in tautological madness. By arguing in support of bad law (sex discrimination without sexual differentiation)they have finessed themselves into a pickle.
Oh wow I get to dance for dollar bills and complain when a female gets more of them than I do.
The only solution is a complete ban on athletic programs. Having sports for boys only but not girls discriminates against girls. But allowing girls to have their own teams discriminates against insane, delusional boys, who claim to identify as girls but who beat the real girls at their own sport. Teams that allow both boys and girls don’t work either because the best boys do better at almost every sport than the best girls, and that too discriminates against girls. So, no sports hereafter forevermore.
And no bathrooms either. I suppose that single-toilet restrooms are allowed, but we don’t have enough money to renovate schools to gut the present bathrooms and install those facilities. And can you imagine how much pupils will use them to hide while cutting class, to trade or smoke illicit substances, to destroy the equipment unsupervised, or otherwise to violate the various rules? (That was before the social-distancing mandates, which forbid restroom use whatsoever.)
Where my wife used to work, they fired roughly six employees all at once. Not laid off. Fired. Two of them were black and one of those was the worst offender.
The two black women sued for discrimination and both won.
If I owned a business I would avoid at all costs hiring people that were a “governement protected” class. Best to just hire white men. You can still fire them for pretty much any reason, though my white son did win a small judgement when he was fired without cause.
He went on to start a new company that put his former employer out of business. He recently got a $410,000 grant from the government as part of the virus stimulus.
I don’t know that I’d do it just for that but if I was ever facing prison, I’d damn sure “identify as a woman” to not have to go to men’s prison.
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