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Appellate Advocacy Blog
Appellate Advocacy Blog Weekly Roundup Friday, March 17, 2023
Each week, the Appellate Advocacy Blog Weekly Roundup presents a few tidbits of news and Twitter posts from the past week concerning appellate advocacy. As always, if you see something…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Kate Redburn on “Before Equal Protection: The Fall of Cross-Dressing Bans and the Transgender Legal Movement”
By Jamie Abrams
Kate Redburn has published Before Equal Protection: The Fall of Cross-Dressing Bans and the Transgender Legal Movement, 1962-86, Law & History Rev. 1 (2023). The abstract provides: Scholars are still unsure why…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Second Circuit Upholds Transgender Sports Policy Allowing Male Students who Identify as Female to Compete in Girls’ Athletics
By Tracy Thomas
Female Track Athletes Lose Appeal Against Connecticut's Transgender Sports PolicyA federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to Connecticut’s policy allowing male students who identify as female to compete in…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
NPR Article on Increasingly Common Bills Targeting Trans Youth
By Jamie Abrams
NPR published an article covering how Bills targeting trans youth are growing more common -- and radically reshaping lives. An NPR analysis of this fast-changing landscape found that over the past…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Arguments Against Transgender Equality Based on SCOTUS 1974 Case Geduldig Are Inconsistent with Equal Protection Doctrine
By Tracy Thomas
Katie Eyer, Transgender Equality and Geduldig 2.0 In 1974, Geduldig v. Aiello held that pregnancy discrimination is not facially sex discrimination. Now, close to five decades later, opponents of transgender equality…
The Right Coast
Furman U. puts professor on leave for attending the 2017 Charlottesville rally | The College Fix
Late last month the Twitter account Sunlight Anti-Fascist Action revealed that Computer Science Professor Chris Healy attended the rally, writing What s that you re standing next to, Chris a…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Can Title IX Be Used to Exclude Trans Athletes
By Tracy Thomas
WP, A Battle Over Title IX: Can it be Used to Exclude Trans Athletes?On Thursday, a federal appellate court heard arguments concerning the rights of transgender student-athletes.But unlike most other…
The Right Coast
Every Tomboy Is Tagged Transgender – WSJ
The number of young Americans who describe themselves as transgender has exploded over the past decade, increasing by a factor of 20 to 40, according to gender clinic referral data…
PrawfsBlawg
Judicial departmentalism in action
Main Saturday, August 20, 2022Judicial departmentalism in actionIdaho wants to prevent trans people from changing their gender markers on state documents. Here is how it has gone:• Pre-2018: State regulations…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Ohio House Passes “Save Women’s Sports Act” Bill to Prohibit Transgender Female Athletes in School Sports and Includes Verification Process of Genital Inspection
By Tracy Thomas
Ohio GOP Passes Bill Aiming to Root Out "Suspected" Transgender Female Athletes Through Genital InspectionHouse Republican lawmakers in Ohio passed a bill at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night that would ban…