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[ElectricBlanketFire]

Breaking now.

A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Gloucester County School Board policy is discriminatory. A federal judge had rejected Gloucester High School student Gavin Grimm's sex discrimination claim.

The appeals court's ruling establishes legal precedent in the five states in the 4th Circuit, including North Carolina, which faces a lawsuit challenging a new state law requiring transgender public school students to use the bathroom that corresponds to the sex on their birth certificate.

 

[platocplx]

Good. Stupid law and stupid arguments against it. Especially hate the argument that there would be perverts dressing up as the opposite sex to go into bathrooms to do lewd things.

 

[SuperBanana]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

 

[Grover Cleveland]

Hopefully this convinces the NCGA not to spend silly amounts of taxpayer dollars on legal defense for their own heinous law.

Probably won't.

(They'll run through the budget now and complain about wasteful government spending later instead)

 

[Orbis Tabula]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

Social conservatives, bummed out about marriage equality being settled, have moved on to their next boogeyman.

 

[Ourobolus]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

Penises are scary.

 

[shiba5]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

Kim Davis's lawyers also like to mass produce legislation like this.

 

[Ekai]

Social conservatives, bummed out about marriage equality being settled, have moved on to their next boogeyman.

Basically this. Happy to hear it was overturn'd.

 

[kirblar]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

GOP Legislature Mills. They craft bills then send them with marching orders to all 50 states.

Another example of this is regulations forcing abortion clinics to have literally the same specs as hospitals, thus forcing them to close.

 

[Ekai]

GOP Legislature Mills. They craft bills then send them with marching orders to all 50 states.

Another example of this is regulations forcing abortion clinics to have literally the same specs as hospitals, thus forcing them to close.

For those who don't know about the abortion clinic laws, John Oliver has a good video on the matter.

 

[DOWN]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

Once these states solved poverty, this was the next major crisis on the list

 

[John Kowalski]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

Straight from the toilet.

 

[Sean C]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

Until recently, trans rights was such a marginal movement that most felt no need to enact laws like this. It's rather like how states only stated enacting constitutional bans on gay marriage in the late 1990s-early 2000s, when the issue was starting to crest.

 

[Mesoian]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

Funny you ask.

https://t.co/4Ejpp4K9wb

Sounds like ultra conservative Christians trying to gain power and get rich at the same time because, "How dare they exist in my field of view".

 

[kirblar]

Until recently, trans rights was such a marginal movement that most felt no need to enact laws like this. It's rather like how states only stated enacting constitutional bans on gay marriage in the late 1990s-early 2000s, when the issue was starting to crest.

I strongly suspect this is going to end up completely backfiring on them due to it increasing awareness even further.

 

[How About No]

Where the hell are all these bathroom laws coming from suddenly? They seem to be a weird new trend in American states.

Dont you know, Trans people are heading to bathrooms RIGHT NOW. EMERGENCY LEGISLATIVE ACTION!!

 

[ivysaur12]

McCory is going to tank his reelection over an issue that the federal courts are going to throw out. Sad!

 

[Poltergust]

Kim Davis's lawyers also like to mass produce legislation like this.

There was a thread on GAF about this.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1207868

Basically, blame Kim Davis & her lawyers for going state-to-state to push this kind of legislation.

 

[Misha]

I strongly suspect this is going to end up completely backfiring on them due to it increasing awareness even further.

mississippi's especially will make this reach the supreme court way earlier than it would have initially.

There was a thread on GAF about this.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1207868

Basically, blame Kim Davis & her lawyers for going state-to-state to push this kind of legislation.

bit of nitpicking but its slightly bothering me that people are saying kim davis's lawyers instead of Liberty Counsel. they've been around before then and its good to know exactly who the ones were that cause this

 

[Toa TAK]

HA! Blow me Virginia!