After the U.S. 9th circuit court ruled religious groups cannot keep trans men out of women’s spaces, they receive a fiery dissent. 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke began his dissent with the phrase, “This is a case about swinging d#%ks.”
He then added, “The fact that the religious owners of a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa are prohibited by law from preventing a naked adult male, who remains sexually attracted to women, from exposing himself to thirteen-year-old girls tragically illustrates the sick and twisted consequences of erasing sex as a coherent legal category
My distressed colleagues appear to have the fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun when it comes to mere unpleasant words in my opinion, yet exhibit the scruples of our dearly departed colleague Judge Reinhardt when it comes to the government trampling on religious liberties and exposing women and girls to male genitalia,” he wrote. “That kind of selective outrage speaks for itself.”
Judge Blasts Liberal Colleagues For Forcing Christian Spa To Allow Men In Women’s Space: “Collectively Lost Their Minds” – louderwithcrowder.com
According to Judge Lawrence VanDyke, “the supposed adults in the room have collectively lost their minds.” He said this in response to his colleagues forcing a Chrisitan spa to admit men into female-only spaces.
According to TPM:
“This is a case about swinging dicks,” began 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke in his dissent.
The case in question centered on the policy of two Korean spas in Washington state that allowed only “biological women” to use their services — or more specifically, barred trans women who had not yet undergone surgery. Washington’s Human Rights Commission took enforcement action against the spas for violating an anti-discrimination state law. The spas sued, arguing that the enforcement action had violated their First Amendment rights. A district court dismissed the complaint, and a 9th Circuit panel upheld that dismissal. In a Thursday ruling, the full 9th Circuit declined to rehear the case.