Microblogs: US Supreme Court to rule on Title VII discrimination for sexual orientation and gender identity.
Today is October 8th 2019
A lot of trans spaces are hot with talk about the supreme court hearing arguments from three cases, and these cases deal with two gay men and a transgender woman suing under Title VII sex discrimination.
Lower courts in the US established some precedent of ruling that this 1964 law on sex discrimination covers sexual orientation and gender identity. While detractors say this was not the purpose, a supportive argument counters that sexual harassment was not the intention yet it is part of established precedent.
Here it is in more detail
In a broader sense,
the cases reflect how transphobia and homophobia both come from the same place of sexism. My blog comes from the perspective of a transfeminine person, so transmisogyny is part of my experiences. How one is perceived and received can be a matter of life and death, especially for trans women of color. A lot of transphobia and especially transmisogyny is a sensational reaction based in misogyny. The law should reflect this, yet conservatives in power want to roll back rights and made it a goal to erase trans people in the law, and define legal sex as binary and narrow and immutable. The law does conflate sex and gender, and yet there is legal precedent that includes trans and queer people in legal protections.
Stay safe, hopeful, always keep up the fight, and thanks for reading
-Mx BDE.
A lot of trans spaces are hot with talk about the supreme court hearing arguments from three cases, and these cases deal with two gay men and a transgender woman suing under Title VII sex discrimination.
Lower courts in the US established some precedent of ruling that this 1964 law on sex discrimination covers sexual orientation and gender identity. While detractors say this was not the purpose, a supportive argument counters that sexual harassment was not the intention yet it is part of established precedent.
Here it is in more detail
In a broader sense,
the cases reflect how transphobia and homophobia both come from the same place of sexism. My blog comes from the perspective of a transfeminine person, so transmisogyny is part of my experiences. How one is perceived and received can be a matter of life and death, especially for trans women of color. A lot of transphobia and especially transmisogyny is a sensational reaction based in misogyny. The law should reflect this, yet conservatives in power want to roll back rights and made it a goal to erase trans people in the law, and define legal sex as binary and narrow and immutable. The law does conflate sex and gender, and yet there is legal precedent that includes trans and queer people in legal protections.
Stay safe, hopeful, always keep up the fight, and thanks for reading
-Mx BDE.
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