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Supreme Court agrees to hear cases on transgender athletes
scotusblog ^ | 7/3/25 | Amy Howe

Posted on 07/03/2025 9:59:50 AM PDT by CFW

Just over two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender minors, the justices agreed to take up another high-profile issue involving transgender people – specifically, the constitutionality of laws that bar transgender women and girls from participating on girls’ and women’s sports teams. In a list of orders released on Thursday morning, the court granted a pair of petitions filed by Idaho and West Virginia, seeking review of lower-court rulings that barred them from enforcing such laws.

Idaho was the first state to enact such a ban in 2020. Lindsay Hecox, a transgender woman who wanted to try out for the Boise State University women’s track and cross-country teams, went to federal court in April 2020 to block the state from applying the ban to her. She argued that the Idaho law violates both Title IX, a federal civil rights law that bars sex discrimination in educational programs and activities that receive federal funding, and the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.

A federal district court agreed that Hecox was likely to succeed on her claims and barred the state from enforcing the law against her. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld that ruling, agreeing that the law likely violates the Constitution.

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To: \/\/ayne

61 posted on 07/03/2025 1:25:18 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: CFW

Title IX of the Civil Rights Act speaks of sex discrimination. Sex means sex, not gender preference, and meant the same when the Act was passed. Unless the court is planning to declare Title IX unconstitutional, I don’t see how this is even an arguable case for the trannies.


62 posted on 07/03/2025 1:36:41 PM PDT by csn vinnie
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To: CFW

“laws that bar transgender women and girls “

If they capture the language have they won the issue.
I submit there is no such thing as “transgender women”.
There may be “transgender persons”. But they do not fit the definition of “women”. The same with “girls” but more so.

The National Standards bodies should clearly define the words.


63 posted on 07/03/2025 1:41:56 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h )
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To: Dr. Franklin

I consider “choice” and “decision” to be synonymous, for the most part.


64 posted on 07/03/2025 1:51:46 PM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: Stosh

I concur.

The folks in the first 2 categories are the ones I am concerned about, because the ones in the other categories are turning everyone against all trans folks.

One of the reasons there was such an explosion of individuals claiming to be trans is because the medical industry tossed the Zucker protocols out the window, ignored actual science, moved a GD diagnosis to “feelings” instead of genetics.

The people who butchered children for profit will have a lot to answer for; meanwhile, you have the .001% being maligned for a condition they did nothing to bring on or deserve.

Both the left and the right did them dirty: the left by pretending you didn’t need an underlying medical condition and the right by pretending there are no people with underlying medical conditions. A pox on both their houses.


65 posted on 07/03/2025 2:04:00 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: cuban leaf
I consider “choice” and “decision” to be synonymous, for the most part.

But neither are synonymous with delusion.
66 posted on 07/03/2025 2:07:32 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: cableguymn

Saying “transgender woman” is like saying “male female.”


67 posted on 07/03/2025 2:18:45 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: shelterguy
I often go the msn page to look at stories and mostly to read the comments. They NEVER allow commenting on any stories related to the trannies and crossdressers.

They KNOW how UNPOPULAR this movement is so they "KILL" any NEGATIVE RESPONSE by "KILLING" ALL/ANY RESPONSE.

The L.A. Times are fully AWARE in ADVANCE of how UNPOPULAR this IDEA is to mainstream Americans, but, they're going to PERSIST in "Badgering" all of us with it under the guise that WE'RE ALL just a bunch of "Homo-Phobes."

I can already tell YOU it WON'T WORK.. WHY? Because MOST People are VERY TIRED of having this ISSUE constantly SHOVED into their FACE! That's the very reason they DO NOT ALLOW COMMENTS on Tranny Issues.

68 posted on 07/03/2025 2:19:15 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: CFW

Jackson will need to accuse herself, not being a biologist.


69 posted on 07/03/2025 2:49:21 PM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: Dr. Franklin

I certainly can’t argue with that. 👍


70 posted on 07/03/2025 2:49:26 PM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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This is exactly what the Democrats are waiting for in the US -- for SCOTUS to solve their tranny problem.

"Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President BarackObama told NPR that his promotion of transgender ideology made it easier for Trump to win the presidency."

71 posted on 07/03/2025 3:01:04 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: TheWriterTX
"Legitimately trans individuals, those with genetic abnormalities, try very hard to “pass” as the other gender and fly under the radar. They are .001% of the population."

That was the case until 15 years ago mid-Obama and the marxist 'pubrik skrewel' -- as Rush used to say -- teachers raised them to be defiant. And "defiance" describes Willie 'Lia' Thomas inside and outside.

72 posted on 07/03/2025 3:04:25 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: CFW

Justice Brown can go ahead and recuse herself, since she’s already pleaded ignorance due to lack of qualification on the subject.


73 posted on 07/03/2025 4:05:11 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: CFW

The SCOTUS may rule on this case without having oral arguments.


74 posted on 07/03/2025 4:41:09 PM PDT by WASCWatch ( WASC)
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To: StAnDeliver

It was the case until the Zucker protocols were abandoned in favor of “feelings”; instead of a team of specialists, including an endocrinologist, a psychiatrist, a general practioner, sometimes a neurologist, and a therapist all working to determine and counteract the underlying cause under Zucker, all someone had to do was have “the feelz” and viola! - you’re trans.

Under Zucker, it took years to get a diagnosis as trans.


75 posted on 07/03/2025 4:51:58 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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To: TheWriterTX
Trans, Cross-dressers, and drag queens usually all get lumped together.

They shouldn’t.

They are very different.


Not really. Drag queens literally are cross-dressers, just a single-sex subset thereof. A chick cannot be a drag queen, just a dude.

"Trans" is a failure of lazy people. Without full context or definition, it can mean multiple things. A transvestite is literally the fancy word for a cross-dresser.
76 posted on 07/04/2025 7:36:42 AM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: CFW
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "TRANSGENDER"
- Chromosomes make that Biologically-Impossible

Democrats are at War with
Almighty God, Biology and Reality




[A man will always be a man. A woman will always be a woman.]

I saved my comment from another thread on the REAL WOMAN PROTESTING this madness - because I figured there would be more articles

[Stephanie Turner:

“I voted RED (Republican) down the ticket this year,” Turner continued. “It was like waking up to the lies of the mainstream media… Just to watch so many of my friends have this glassy-eyed look while just defending this policy because their brains can not manage the possibility that their party or their position has been wrong on this, and perhaps this isn’t a civil rights movement, and they have been misled.”]


Dear Stephanie,

WISELY and CORRECTLY have you discerned this GLASSY-EYED LOOK. They have that LOOK ON THEIR FACES because they HAVE to turn their minds over to REPROBATE to support this GODLESS REBELLION.

This is a KNOWN PHENOMENA - It was described in the Bible thousands of years ago (see the following images).


KNOWN PHENOMENA (or PHENOMENON)

Make no mistake about it, this "transgender" madness
came out (pun not intended) of the homosexual movement

An incredibly-effective tool that the Old Serpent called the Devil and Satan is using to not only destroy souls but to cripple and destroy the effectiveness of God's Word through several churches - The Days of Lot are here again just as prophesied in Luke 17:28-32








2nd Thessalonians 2:10-12
New King James Version

10 and with all Unrighteous Deception among those who
PERISH, because they did not receive the love of the Truth,
that they might be SAVED.

11 And for this reason God will send them STRONG DELUSION,
that they should BELIEVE THE LIE,

12 that they all may be Condemned who did not believe
the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonians%202%3A10-12&version=NKJV

77 posted on 07/05/2025 2:02:44 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: \/\/ayne; Lazamataz; MtnClimber; Morgana; SeekAndFind; Libloather; artichokegrower; 444Flyer; ...
The Democrats are committed to it

The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner



78 posted on 07/05/2025 2:18:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Rebellion always begins in the heart. Rebellion against God’s authority was humanity’s first sin (Genesis 3) and continues to be our downfall. Our sinful natures do not want to bow to the authority of another, even God. We want to be our own bosses, and that rebellion in the human heart is the root of all sin (Romans 3:23).
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-rebellion.html


79 posted on 07/05/2025 6:16:22 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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