Posted on 07/26/2021 5:34:38 AM PDT by Magnatron
A West Virginia judge ruled that a school must allow a biological boy to try out for a girls’ cross-country team despite the state’s recent law limiting schools to allowing only students born as females into girls’ sports.
On Wednesday, Bill Clinton-appointed Judge Joseph Goodwin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia issued a take-down of the state’s Save Women’s Sports Bill and ordered the state to allow 11-year-old transgender student Becky Pepper-Jackson to try out for a girl’s middle school cross-country team.
Goodwin claimed that the law is not valid while it faces a pending case against it, and the transgender student must be allowed to compete as if the law does not exist. “While this case is pending,” the judge wrote, “[the student] will be permitted to sign up for and participate in school athletics in the same way as her girl classmates.”
The law states that “[a]thletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex where selection for such teams is based upon competitive skill or the activity involved is a contact sport.” The law maintains that students will compete only on teams that correspond with their “biological sex.”
Goodwin excoriated the law as a “malignant harm” to transgender people and insisted that it violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So this is the new rule: No law can exist while a case against it is pending.
In other words…
Anarchy
How many “records” have now been broken by men competing in womens’ sports?
Simple fix - instead of calling them boys and girls teams, call them x and y teams.
Odd...I always thought WV was full of common sense people...
Rope Judge some assembly required. The Left will not stop short of extreme push back.
You got the gist of it right off the bat. No way a ruling like this is valid.
His bias is apparent.
Should we allow that to be the standard? So long as the boys aren't "breaking records", then it's okay for them to be on the girls teams?
I have yet to see an example of girls trying to join the boys teams. I wonder why that is.
Let’s call it what it is. This judge went rogue and use a ridiculous excuse to literally not enforce the law in his state.
None of this makes sense to a normal mind. Let them be what they want...but they shouldn’t be overriding “normal” people. It’s an assault on justice.
The girls should just quit.
End this bullshit.
simpler fix - have one team ...
Ignore judge and carry on .
Is that because women are all former slaves or because they are all black?
...but not necessarily common sense judges. Unfortunately, many of those specialized lawyers who are elected or appointed to the position of magistrate at some level, have a personal set of bias and prejudice that is not always visible on the surface, and they will twist the meaning of words to fit their personal narrative.
A Clinton appointee probably from a Manchin recommendation!
That should explain the lack of sense.
Goodwin excoriated the law as a “malignant harm” to transgender people.
“ Goodwin excoriated the law as a “malignant harm” to transgender people”
What a coincidence. I believe acceptance of transgender people will cause malignant harm to normal society. I think we win this battle if we try a bit.
The last paragraph of the excerpt explains his thinking. Basically he didn’t like the law so he just found an excuse to throw it out.
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