{"id":17696,"date":"2024-12-04T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17696"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:27:16","slug":"live-updates-supreme-court-hearing-major-trans-rights-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17696","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates: Supreme Court Hearing Major Trans Rights Case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The court has sided with gay and transgender people in recent cases, but there have been dissents.<\/span>Eric Lee\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

At a pair of<\/a> arguments<\/a> in 2019 about employment discrimination against gay and transgender workers, the justices could not stop talking about bathrooms. In all, five justices explored questions related to who may use which facilities, though bathrooms did not figure in the cases before them.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s not avoid the difficult issue,\u201d said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a member of the court\u2019s liberal wing, posing a hypothetical question: \u201cYou have a transgender person who rightly is identifying as a woman and wants to use the women\u2019s bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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She added: \u201cThere are other women who are made uncomfortable, and not merely uncomfortable, but who would feel intruded upon if someone who still had male characteristics walked into their bathroom. That\u2019s why we have different bathrooms. So the hard question is: How do we deal with that?\u201d<\/p>\n

David D. Cole, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union representing a transgender woman, seemed puzzled.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a question, Justice Sotomayor,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not the question in this case.\u201d<\/p>\n

The argument also touched on sports, religion and dress codes, and it suggested that many justices found it hard to disentangle the legal question before them from related ones.<\/p>\n

Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, for instance, asked whether a ruling in favor of Mr. Cole\u2019s client would do away with sex-specific dress codes. Mr. Cole said no.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are transgender male lawyers in this courtroom following the male dress code and going to the men\u2019s room,\u201d he said, \u201cand the court\u2019s dress code and sex-segregated restrooms have not fallen.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the court issued its decision<\/a>, which sided with gay and transgender workers, Justice Gorsuch\u2019s majority opinion said it was tightly focused on employment discrimination.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not purport to address bathrooms, locker rooms or anything else of the kind,\u201d he wrote, adding that those \u201care questions for future cases, not these.\u201d<\/p>\n

In dissent, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. chastised the majority for kicking the can down the road.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court may wish to avoid this subject,\u201d he wrote, \u201cbut it is a matter of concern to many people who are reticent about disrobing or using toilet facilities in the presence of individuals whom they regard as members of the opposite sex.\u201d<\/p>\n

In cases that reached the court on what critics call its shadow docket, the justices have ruled for a transgender prisoner seeking surgery and a transgender girl who sought to compete on the girls\u2019 cross-country and track teams at her middle school in West Virginia. Justice Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented in both cases.<\/p>\n

Those two justices also dissented in 2021 when the court turned down an appeal<\/a> from a ruling<\/a> in favor of a transgender boy in Virginia who wanted to use the boys\u2019 bathroom at his high school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reporting on the Supreme CourtThe court has sided with gay and transgender people in recent cases, but there have been dissents.Eric Lee\/The New York TimesAt a pair of arguments in 2019 about employment discrimination against gay and transgender workers, the justices could not stop talking about bathrooms. In all, five justices explored questions related to who may use which facilities, though bathrooms did not figure in the cases before them.\u201cLet\u2019s not avoid the difficult issue,\u201d said Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a member of the court\u2019s liberal wing, posing a hypothetical question: \u201cYou have a transgender person who rightly is identifying as a woman and wants to use the women\u2019s bathroom.\u201dShe added: \u201cThere are other women who are made uncomfortable, and not merely uncomfortable, but who would feel intruded upon if someone who still had male characteristics walked into their bathroom. That\u2019s why we have different bathrooms. So the hard question is: How do we deal with that?\u201dDavid D. Cole, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union representing a transgender woman, seemed puzzled.\u201cThat is a question, Justice Sotomayor,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is not the question in this case.\u201dThe argument also touched on sports, religion and dress codes, and it suggested that many justices found it hard to disentangle the legal question before them from related ones.Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, for instance, asked whether a ruling in favor of Mr. Cole\u2019s client would do away with sex-specific dress codes. Mr. Cole said no.\u201cThere are transgender male lawyers in this courtroom following the male dress code and going to the men\u2019s room,\u201d he said, \u201cand the court\u2019s dress code and sex-segregated restrooms have not fallen.\u201dWhen the court issued its decision, which sided with gay and transgender workers, Justice Gorsuch\u2019s majority opinion said it was tightly focused on employment discrimination.\u201cWe do not purport to address bathrooms, locker rooms or anything else of the kind,\u201d he wrote, adding that those \u201care questions for future cases, not these.\u201dIn dissent, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. chastised the majority for kicking the can down the road.\u201cThe court may wish to avoid this subject,\u201d he wrote, \u201cbut it is a matter of concern to many people who are reticent about disrobing or using toilet facilities in the presence of individuals whom they regard as members of the opposite sex.\u201dIn cases that reached the court on what critics call its shadow docket, the justices have ruled for a transgender prisoner seeking surgery and a transgender girl who sought to compete on the girls\u2019 cross-country and track teams at her middle school in West Virginia. Justice Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented in both cases.Those two justices also dissented in 2021 when the court turned down an appeal from a ruling in favor of a transgender boy in Virginia who wanted to use the boys\u2019 bathroom at his high school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17698,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17699,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17696\/revisions\/17699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}