Posted on 01/08/2023 10:55:33 AM PST by Twotone
A ruling by a federal appeals court that upheld a Florida school district’s policy of separating restrooms by “biological sex” could be used to bar men from joining women’s sports teams, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
In a 7-4 decision on Dec. 30, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a prior ruling by a district judge and ruled that a Florida school board’s policy that required students to use bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex was constitutional and did not violate Title IX, a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The reasoning of the ruling will be applied to prohibit biological men from competing in women’s sports, legal experts told the DCNF.
“Judge [Barbara] Lagoa, who was the author of the opinion, actually went to the sort of unusual step of also penning her own concurring opinion,” Sarah Parshall Perry, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a think tank focused on creating and pushing policies that focus on individual freedom, told the DCNF. “[She] actually indicated in her concurrence that one of the policy concerns that was underlying all of this was women’s athletics. In other words, this particular outcome, if they had determined that a transgender individual could have access to a bathroom that was in alignment with their gender identity and not their biology, would have what she called ‘consequences beyond the bathroom door’ and chief among those for her point of view, and rightly so, were athletics.”
The decision by the appeals court came after former St. Johns County student Drew Adams, a transgender student who identifies as a boy, sued the school district for their policy of separating restrooms by “biological sex” instead of gender identity.
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A rational court
A federal ruling would be legislating from the bench just like Roe vs. Wade.
This is a watershed ruling against the commie zeitgeist.
And the USSC will most certainly uphold it.
That’s why there will be no appeal.
All we need now is a conflicting opinion in another Appeals Court.
Now I know why.
fedgov requires trans females to register for the selective service
kind of a tell that they dont believe this nonsense
It is simple just set but trans teams to compete against each other….
Agreed. It’s a massive problem that needs to stop - but with Congress behaving as petulant children and our citizens’ refusal to fire them via elections (or sheer inability to), things may wind up ultimately being handled this way; and that’s really bad.
fedgov requires trans females to register for the selective service
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Oh really! What hypocrites!
Separating bathrooms by genetic sex is constitutional? So, Brandon and Obamanation acted unconstitutionally? Duh.
I wish I could go back in time, and tell Founding Fathers what progressives want to do.
Bout had heart failure Nifster. Maybe the tide is beginning to turn... sorry lost my mind there for a minute.
Understood
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