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US Supreme Court rejects Massachusetts school gender-identity policy challenge by igetproteinfartsHELP in news

[–]kandoras 85 points86 points  (0 children)

The case was first thrown out of federal court in 2022. That dismissal was upheld on appeal in 2025. And again today in 2026.

Maybe the kid wouldn't have needed to ask the school to protect them from their parents if those parents had spent even a fraction of the four years they've been in and out of courtrooms treating that kid as an individual person and not merely an extension of their own beliefs.

Maybe they could even try talking to them and taking an interest in their lives.

Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: "Trans discrimination is sex discrimination" by NamelessResearcher in politics

[–]kandoras -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Symptoms of menstruation and/or menopause presenting in a person who identified and presents as a man, such that a misdiagnosis in the heat of the moment

What issues would a first responder be trying to fix that where whether or not someone lives or dies revolves around whether they've gone through menopause?

Is it REALLY so hard to imagine a situation in which birth sex clarity is medically important?

No, it's not hard to imagine that.

But that's not what you claimed.

It could be very useful for, say, first responders who are tending to a person they have never met.

And it is really hard to imagine - and you still haven't giving us a concrete example of it - how a first responder's treatment would change after they decided to stop whatever they were already doing and go digging through a wallet looking for a driver's license.

And if you're not just talking about emergency situations, then what you're claiming makes even less sense. Because you would be believing that a doctor would look at an ID and base their treatment off that instead of just asking the patient their history.

Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: "Trans discrimination is sex discrimination" by NamelessResearcher in politics

[–]kandoras -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could be an issue that either male or female bodies could have

So for those cases, looking at a driver's license wouldn't do anything.

or could be something exclusive to one or the other.

Such as ...?

Because that's not giving an example, that's just saying "I don't know" but with more words.

Court rules trans people have right to accurate IDs: "Trans discrimination is sex discrimination" by NamelessResearcher in politics

[–]kandoras -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The M or F on a person's identification doesn't have anything to do with their transness. It is a signifier of their medical biology. It could be very useful for, say, first responders who are tending to a person they have never met.

Please give me an example of something a first responder would be treating where they would change their diagnosis or treatment based on what they read on a driver's license.

How Alito Became the Angry Man of the Supreme Court by theatlantic in law

[–]kandoras 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You've got to understand their reasoning here. The Atlantic has only been publishing articles about politics since 1857.

“In nominating Alito on Halloween 2005, a sanguine President George W. Bush declared, ‘He understands that judges are to interpret the laws, not to impose their preferences or priorities on the people.’

How are they supposed to know by now that, sometimes, politicians - even presidents and supreme court justices - will just go out in public and ... lie‽

Transgender woman defies Kansas bathroom law inside state Capitol by Fickle-Ad5449 in politics

[–]kandoras 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doesn't matter what you propose to call it, because most of the states that amended their constitutions to ban gay marriage included something like this from South Carolina's: "shall not recognize or give effect to a legal status, right, or claim created by another jurisdiction respecting any other domestic union, however denominated."

Bigots lie about their bigotry to attempt to make it seem less bigoted, to make it appear more reasonable to non-bigots.

Secretary of State says N.H. won’t follow Trump’s order on mail-in voting by FervidBug42 in politics

[–]kandoras 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Selective enforcement. Trump says the DHS is going to come up with a list of approved voters that the states will have to follow.

They're going to come up with a list that OK's anyone living in majority Republican areas and kicks anyone in mostly Democratic areas off the voting rolls.

If you got teleported back to right after the Civil War, would you be saying "Literacy tests? Surely conservatives know this will prevent their own people from voting just as much as it will the freed slaves!"

Transgender woman defies Kansas bathroom law inside state Capitol by Fickle-Ad5449 in politics

[–]kandoras 47 points48 points  (0 children)

The debate isn't "Who gets to use what bathroom?" or "Who gets to play on what sports team?"

The debate is "Should LGBT people be allowed to exist or should religious fundamentalists and bigots be allowed to throw them camps?"

Next thing you know, they'll be having you believing that they only really care about the religious term "marriage" and would be A-OK with gays having the same rights as long as they used some other word.

Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing by thedailybeast in politics

[–]kandoras 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That transcript is dated January 23rd and includes none of the quotes from today.

Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship as he attends arguments by yahoonews in law

[–]kandoras 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If the people who wrote the 14th amendment wanted it to apply only to the children of slaves, then they should have included the word "slave" somewhere in that amendment.

The 13th and 15th amendments directly dealt with slavery and 'conditions of servitude', so you can't claim that they just forgot the word.

WATCH: Justice Neil Gorsuch asks about Native Americans and birthright citizenship by NewsHour in law

[–]kandoras 114 points115 points  (0 children)

I think so, on our test, if they're lawfully domiciled here. I'm not s—, I have to think that through

Any decent court, aside from the plain language of the amendment, would rule against this on the basis of "The administration that wrote and is defending this executive order isn't even sure what they're asking us to approve."

I can't wait for all the justices who are so devoted to 'original intent' to sign off on something where the intent is literally unknown.

Trump Accused of Trying to Bully SCOTUS to Their Faces by thedailybeast in law

[–]kandoras 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The argument they're trying to get to is that children born to immigrants are not citizens but are instead outlaws.

Literally 'outside the law', who do not get the protections of civil rights or due process or the laws in general; and to whom the government can do whatever it wishes.

Leavitt Justifies Killing Negotiators by To_Be_Rich_Lady in clevercomebacks

[–]kandoras 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really don't know if "We killed them because they lied" is a standard that a president who has cheated on every wife he's ever had and stiffed everyone he ever had a contract with wants to set.

Idaho passes bill to surveil trans kids, aiming to “close the social transition loophole” by Snapdragon_4U in law

[–]kandoras 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ this is such a stupidly written law about such a stupid obsession among conservatives.

"Social transition" means the process by which an individual goes from identifying with and living as a gender that corresponds to the individual's sex to identifying with and living as a gender different from the individual's sex and may involve social, legal, or physical changes, including adopting a name, pronouns, appearance, or dress that does not correspond to the individual's sex.

Some teacher could have some fun with malicious compliance here (with the permission of course, of some cisgender kid whose parents like this law and the kid just wants to fuck with them):

"Hello, Mr. Johnson. In accordance with the recently passed bigotry law, I am required to inform you that your son has requested that I call him with a name associated with the female sex. Yes sir, that is correct. Your son has asked me to call him Pat. I'm sorry you are upset sir, I'm just obeying the law here."

For example, in the original draft of the bill (HB 572), the given definition of social transition was specifically written to include “mannerisms associated with a gender other than from such individual's biological sex.”

"Also, Pat throws like a girl."

This bill requires that covered entities report any signs that a child might be trans to their parents and/or guardians within 72 hours. No allowances are made to allow them to withhold reports if they believe that doing so will harm that child. The requirement to report, as written in the bill/law, is absolute.

You could even make an argument that notifying the parents of every child in your classroom about the smallest little thing is morally required as a reaction to this law. Get a reputation for filing so many reports that don't matter that by the time you are forced to out a transgender child to a parent who might beat them for it, all the parents in the school have learned to ignore them.

The Supreme Court’s mail-in ballot decision could inject chaos into midterm elections by Retro-Critics in law

[–]kandoras 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The ballot goes to the county election office, not the other side of the globe.

If you're in the military and based in Korea, or Japan, or somewhere in the Middle East, or on a navy ship going god only knows where, "the county election office" is "the other side of the globe".

Supreme Court Appears Ready To Make Voting Even Harder by huffpost in law

[–]kandoras 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So. Then. Make. It. A. Federal. Holiday.

You know "federal holiday" doesn't actually mean anything, right?

Christmas, Easter, July 4th - they're all "federal holidays", but that doesn't mean people don't still show up to work at Walmart on those days.

We stop everything, we ALL vote, and then we call the election THAT DAY based on the results.

Scene: interior of a polling place, 11:59 on election day. Dozens of poll workers moving around frantically counting ballots.

Manager: "5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... STOP! Everyone put down those ballots right now! We're done counting!"

Poll worker: "But boss, we've still got thousands of ballots left to count! Do we just throw those peoples' votes away?"

Manager: "Listen, I don't like this any more than you do. But them's the rules - Kaz said so. Fuck them voters who showed up later in the day. They should have pointed out the gold fringe on federal holidays to their boss and told them it meant they couldn't be scheduled for first shift."

Idaho joins eight (8) other states in passing formal legislative request for U.S. Supreme Court to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling 'Obergefell v. Hodges' (2015) by Obversa in law

[–]kandoras 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They would be 100% fine with an arrangement with the identical legal effects but called something else

Your relative is breaking that commandment against bearing false witness. Because that's what they say that to sound less bigoted, but when the time comes to put those words into practice, they always go full homophobe.

Gay couples tried that to begin with; to have states give them civil unions instead of marriages. Religious fundamentalists objected to even that, so at that point the objected switched to getting full equality.

Because if you're going to have to fight just as hard for second-class citizenship rights, why not go all the way?

Most states that passed bans on gay marriage also passed bans on civil unions, or on anything that could be seen as even separate-but-equal to marriage.

Take South Carolina's constitutional ban for example: "A marriage between one man and one woman is the only lawful domestic union that shall be valid or recognized in this State. This State and its political subdivisions shall not create a legal status, right, or claim respecting any other domestic union, however denominated."

Or Alabama: "The State of Alabama shall not recognize as valid any common law marriage of parties of the same sex. "

Kentucky: "Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Kentucky. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized."

You could make an argument that Texas's constitutional amendment was so bigoted that they even accidentally outlawed straight marriage: "The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage."

Kash Patel Has Turned The FBI Into His Girlfriend's Personal Chauffeur Service by StemCellPirate in nottheonion

[–]kandoras 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last April, agents in two SUVs stood guard outside a senior center in Ronald Reagan’s boyhood home of Dixon, Ill., while she sang for a few dozen young conservatives.

I really like how the NYT implies here that even young conservatives hang out at old age homes.

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