"In service of radical gender ideology, Minnesota's actions violate Title IX and deny female athletes their hard-earned trophies, records, dignity, and safety."What Pam Bondi knows about dignity could fit on a post-it note and have room on it for the entire Desiderata. On the Trans Day of Visibility, the Supreme Court of the United States in an 8-1 decision struck down a Colorado law banning conversion therapy, in Chiles v. Salazar holding that because conversion therapy often takes the form of talk therapy, Colorado's law amounts to a content-based restriction on speech and cannot survive First Amendment scrutiny (the full text of the decision is available here for reading; decision written by Gorsuch, Kagan and Sotomayor have a concurrance that indicates their legal opinions on page 28, Jackson dissenting. or more accurately dismantling their arguments for 35 pages starting on page 32). From the Advocate story:
Colorado argued that conversion therapy is not merely an expression but a form of clinical intervention — one associated, major medical groups say, with depression, anxiety, and increased suicide risk. The Court was unpersuaded and concluded that the Constitution does not allow the government to decide which messages may be delivered in a therapist's office. The majority opinion warned that allowing such regulation would give states "broad power to restrict speech it disfavors" within licensed professions, a move it said would have sweeping implications beyond this case.The lone dissent, from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, includes the paragraph:
No one directly disputes that Colorado has the power to regulate the medical treatments that state-licensed professionals provide to patients. Nor is it asserted that, when doing so, a State always runs afoul of the Constitution. So, in my view, it cannot also be the case that Colorado's decision to restrict a dangerous therapy modality that, incidentally, involves provider speech is presumptively unconstitutional. In concluding otherwise, the Court's opinion misreads our precedents, is unprincipled and unworkable, and will eventually prove untenable for those who rely upon the long-recognized responsibility of States to regulate the medical profession for the protection of public health.Thank you, Madame Justice. Another thing from TDov: Gov. Brad Little of Idaho signed into law a bill that criminalized the use of bathrooms by people that aligned with their gender identity, except under carve-outs for emergency response or no reasonable alternate facility being available; the punishment framework is that the first offense is punishable by a year in jail, and the second within five years may give five years in prison. The Idaho Fraternal Order of Police and Police Chiefs Association have warned it would be "difficult to enforce". Also on TDoV, the only orange man openly reviled by Syracuse NY acted as expected and put out a statement attacking transgender Americans and gender diversity in general. In Tenneesse, the Rutherford County Library Board fired library director Luanne James after she refused to remove more than one hundred and ninety LGBTQIA+ themed books from the system's shelves. She had argued that removing or relocating the books, many of them in children's sections, would amount to political censorship, and stood firm, even as they fired her. According to some reports, the board's chair, Cody York, had previously pushed for the books' removal; James also alleged that York directed her to compile detailed information about patrons who checked out the materials, including names, home addresses, ZIP codes, household composition, and specific titles, raising concerns among civil liberties advocates about potential surveillance of readers. In South Carolina, a bill has passed the Senate to restrict transgender students access to bathrooms and locker rooms. Because of course. On her podcast and YouTube series, attorney Leeja Miller put out a video entitled The Attack On Trans People Is Ramping Up, which goes into a lot of details about how we got here. (video contains an ad for the site and app Ground News.) The Good News In a survey of 1,000 Americans by research firm SSRS and funded by the Human Rights Campaign, 85% stated that they believe "transgender people should have the same rights and protection as everyone else." Governor Andy Beshear (D-Kentucky) criticized the Chiles v. Salazar ruling in an interview with The Advocate, stating "The Supreme Court is absolutely wrong. Torture is never free speech. It's just torture." Go Andy! Governor Tony Evers (D-Wisconsin) vetoed five anti-LGBTQIA+ bills sent to him by the Republican-majority legislature, telling a crowd he would have liked to have just written "Hell no" on the bills. The bills in question included anti-trans sports bans, required schools to out trans and nonbinary kids to their parents, and impacted Wisconsin doctors' ability to provide gender-affirming care to minors. During a TDoV protest, Trans Liberty Executive Director Samantha Boucher entered a women's restroom in Topeka as part of a Capitol protest. Capitol police declined to arrest her, with one officer reportedly giving her directions to the restroom. As long as we're visiting Kansas, let's admire these "God Made Trans People" billboards going up on Kansas highways since the idiotic ID law was passed in Kansas. Run by Mayday Health (a nonprofit organization based in NYC that assists in obtaining abortions, morning-after pills, and birth control when normally impossible, and also has a gender affirming care directory), the seven billboards are seen in Kansas City, Topeka, and Wichita. The Cinnamon Roll Report On Instagram, actress Lux Pascal celebrated her brother's birthday, showing a picture of Pedro as a child looking incredibly similar to a young Drew Barrymore. A lesbian couple, Alex Warren and her partner KB White, answered a casting call for women looking for wedding dresses. Professional stylist Law Roach helped them find a dress for Warren, and then it was paid for and gifted to them by one of the stars of the movie, Zendaya. (Roach and Zendaya do have standing invitations to the wedding.) So raise your (Ah, fuck) So raise your glass if you are wrong In all the right ways, all my underdogs We will never be, never be anything but loud And nitty-gritty, dirty, little freaks (So raise your glass)
A women had sex with identical twins (within a 4-day period), got pregnant, and now it’s impossible to tell which is the father, even with DNA testing.
MAASTRICHT (ANP) - De twintig actievoerders die zijn opgepakt voor de bezetting van een gebouw van de Universiteit Maastricht zijn vrijdag vrijgelaten, maar blijven wel verdachte. Dat laat de politie weten.
De pro-Palestijnse actievoerders drongen donderdag een pand aan de Oxfordlaan binnen. Ze werden uren later door de politie uit het gebouw gehaald. De twintig worden verdacht van huisvredebreuk en een wordt ook verdacht van bedreiging.
Eerder werd gemeld dat de twintig nog zeker drie dagen zouden vastzitten, maar volgens een woordvoerster van het Openbaar Ministerie stond dat nog niet vast. Op basis van de gepleegde feiten zijn ze nu in vrijheid gesteld. Dat de twintig zijn vrijgelaten uit coulance vanwege de paasgedachte, is volgens een woordvoerster zeker niet het geval.
De Universiteit Maastricht uitte tijdens de actie haar zorgen, omdat in het gebouw specialistische apparatuur en materialen aanwezig waren, waaronder MRI-scanners, supergeleidende magneten en koelgassen.
Palantir's software was brought in to help NHS England improve care and cut delays, but new reports suggest some staff are resisting using it over ethical, privacy, and trust concerns.…
