But I do find it oddly ironic that the left is destroying everything it fought for with women’s rights in order to cater to their next invented aggrieved minority.
Not if there are strict rules in place regarding the attributes of the transgender women who are allowed to compete (and for the record I don’t think they are strict enough).
That makes no sense. There’s still gender diversity when transgender people are in the mix.
There is nothing Transgenders need to do for their rights but realize they don’t need any more rights than others have, or need for special rights. Very few people are actually against the rights for transexuals. Activism only pisses people off and sounds entitled. All people already have a cross to bear.
I think what we are really talking about are supposed special rights for sexual deviants.
And in response to such supposed “rights”, our 14th Amendment is crystal clear:
”…nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
This wording commands that whatever a State’s laws are, any person within that State’s jurisdiction may not be denied the equal protection of those specific laws. Keep in mind the wording does not forbid a state to make distinctions in law, e.g., based upon sex, but whatever laws are adopted by a State with regard to sex, the State may not deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of those specific laws. The laws must be enforced equally upon all, e.g., if a distinction in law is made with respect to sex, that the wife may not testify, sue or contract, it must be enforced equally upon all regardless of race, color or previous condition of slavery. That is the very intention of the amendment, How do I know this to be true? It is in harmony with the very intentions and beliefs expressed during the framing and ratification of the 14th Amendment, e.g.:
“Its whole effect is not to confer or regulate rights, but to require that whatever of these enumerated rights and obligations are imposed by State laws shall be for and upon all citizens alike without distinctions based on race or former condition of slavery…It permits the States to say that the wife may not testify, sue or contract. It makes no law as to this. Its whole effect is to require that whatever rights as to each of the enumerated civil (not political) matters the States may confer upon one race or color of the citizens shall be held by all races in equality…It does not prohibit you from discriminating between citizens of the same race, or of different races, as to what their rights to testify, to inherit &c. shall be. But if you do discriminate, it must not be on account of race, color or former conditions of slavery. That is all. If you permit a white man who is an infidel to testify, so you must a colored infidel. Self-evidently this is the whole effect of this first section. It secures-not to all citizens, but to all races as races who are citizens- equality of protection in those enumerated civil rights which the States may deem proper to confer upon any race.” ___ SEE: Representative Shallabarger, a supporter of the amendment Congressional Globe, 1866, page 1293
The bottom line is, there are no special rights created for any person engaged in sexual deviant behavior.
JWK
What makes a Supreme Court opinion legitimate is when it is in harmony with the text of our Constitution and its documented legislative intent which gives context to its text.