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Transgender
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Religion Clause
9th Circuit: Anti-Transgender Comments Justify Mayor’s Veto of Membership on Police Advisory Board
In Hodges v. Gloria, (9th Cir., Feb. 26, 2026), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected free speech and free exercise challenges to the San Diego mayor's veto of the…
Last Month at the Supreme Court
Supreme Court Considers Whether Idaho’s Ban on Transgender Participation in Women’s Sports Violates Equal Protection
By Chantel Febus, James Azadian, Andrew T. VanEgmond, Ryan VanOver, Monika Harris
In Little v. Hecox, the Supreme Court is considering whether Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act violates the Equal Protection Clause by barring transgender women and girls from participating on…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Policing Gender: The Interest Convergence of Women’s and Transgender Rights
By Tracy Thomas
Michael R. Ulrich, Policing Gender: The Interest Convergence of Women's and Transgender Rights, Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 28 (forthcoming). This Essay first observes in Part I how the…
PrawfsBlawg
Penn wins the trophy for caving
Main Tuesday, July 01, 2025Penn wins the trophy for cavingWhen the story of institutional cravenness in this dark period is written, University of Pennsylvania will live in the Ninth Circle…
PrawfsBlawg
What should trans-rights activists have done?
Main Friday, June 20, 2025What should trans-rights activists have done?Having used its pages to "just ask questions" and thus launder anti-trans bigotry into empathetic medico-scientific caution, the Times bounces the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
SCOTUS Decides Skrmetti Case Holding that Trans Discrimination is not Sex-Based Discrimination Under Equal Protection
By Tracy Thomas
The decision is here: US v. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. ___ (2025).Held. Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection…
Legal Theory Blog
Byars on Bostock
Kaleb Byars (Mercer University - Walter F. George School of Law) has posted Bostock: An Inevitable Guarantee of Heightened Scrutiny for Sexual Orientation and Transgender Classifications on SSRN. Here is…
Religion Clause
Suit Challenges School District’s Speech Policy
Suit was filed this week in an Oregon federal district court by a clinical social worker employed by an Oregon school district challenging the application of the district's Speech Policy…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Reconceptualizing Anti-Trans Laws as a Broader Effort to Reinscribe Gender Binary
By Tracy Thomas
Laura Lane-Steele, The Sex Alignment Project, 78 Fla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2026) The legal opposition to trans health care bans, “save women’s sports” acts, and related laws has characterized these laws’…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
UK Supreme Court Says Trans Women are Not Legally Women Under Equality Act
By Tracy Thomas
UK Supreme Court Says Trans Women are Not Legally Women Under Equality ActThe Supreme Court in Britain ruled on Wednesday that trans women do not fall within the legal definition of…