5 Casualties of the Court’s LGBTQ Sex Ruling
“Sex” in civil rights law now legally means sexual orientation, or whatever gender you think you are. That’s the result of a surprising Supreme Court decision (Bostock v. Clayton County) from Justice Neil Gorsuch. Problem? Yes. Here are five casualties of this ruling: 1. We the People If you think you have the ability to govern yourselves through your elected representatives, the U.S. Supreme Court has again made a mockery of that Constitutional principle. You can work to elect the right people and pass all the laws you want, only to see a handful of appointed lawyers on the Supreme Court nullify or replace your laws with their own. That’s what six justices did this week. They changed the 1964 civil rights law into a law that they desired, despite the fact that the very changes they made have been rejected by Congress in recent years. Now, just like that, “sex” no longer means biological sex but sexual orientation and whatever a person thinks their sex is at the time. As Ju...