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Judge Tells Anti-Trans School Board To Do Anatomically Impossible Things To Itself
Congratulations, Gavin Grimm!
August 28, 2020 12:50 PM
Gavin Grimm has, once again, won his case!
The now-20-year-old man first filed his case against the Gloucester County School Board when, as a teen, he was denied access to the boys bathroom at Gloucester County High School in Virginia.
The reason? Gavin Grimm is transgender. And it has become important to Republicans and bigots everywhere that trans and nonbinary people don't feel comfortable using public toilets.
On Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit ruled in Grimm's favor, finding the school had violated Title IX of of the Education Amendments of 1972 when it banned him from using the boys room.
<p>As the Fourth Circuit noted, Grimm use the boys room for the first few weeks of his sophomore year of school with no problems. Gloucester County High School only banned him from being able to pee after the superintendent and school board "began receiving numerous complaints" from transphobes "not only [...] within that school district but also from adults in neighboring communities and even other states."</p><p>Eventually, the school decided that it should discriminate against trans students by forcing them to use the bathroom of the sex they were assigned at birth. It also decided to create a separate but equal single stall for trans students to use, because apparently that is still something we do to accommodate bigots.</p><p>The Fourth Circuit saw through all of the school board's bullshit. The transphobes actually argued that their "separate but equal" bathrooms for trans students were fine, because other students could choose to use the segregated single stall bathrooms if they wanted to (even though trans students were the only ones required to use them).</p><blockquote>[T]hat is like saying that racially segregated bathrooms treated everyone equally, because everyone was prohibited from using the bathroom of a different race. No one would suppose that also providing a "race neutral" bathroom option would have solved the deeply stigmatizing and discriminatory nature of racial segregation; so too here.</blockquote><p>The school board had even argued that Gavin's "choice of gender identity did not cause biological changes in his body, and Grimm remain[ed] biologically female."</p><p>Fucking yikes. </p><p>Luckily, the opinion called out this fuckery, noting that,</p><blockquote>embedded in the Board's framing is its own bias: it believes that Grimm's gender identity is a choice, and it privileges sex-assigned-at-birth over Grimm's medically confirmed, persistent and consistent gender identity. The policy itself "recognizes that some students question their gender identities," and states that such students have "gender identity issues." Grimm, however, did not question his gender identity at all; he knew he was a boy. The overwhelming thrust of everything in the record—from Grimm's declaration, to his treatment letter, to the amicus briefs—is that Grimm was similarly situated to other boys, but was excluded from using the boys restroom facilities based on his sex-assigned-at-birth. Adopting the Board's framing of Grimm's equal protection claim here would only vindicate the Board's own misconceptions, which themselves reflect stereotypic notions. (quotation marks omitted)<span class="redactor-invisible-space"></span></blockquote><p>Judges Henry Floyd and James Wynn, both Obama appointees, were in the majority. Judge Paul Niemeyer, a daddy Bush appointee, dissented and said a whole bunch of bigoted shit that we aren't going to reprint here.<br></p><p>This win was a long time coming. Grimm first <a href="https://www.aclu.org/cases/grimm-v-gloucester-county-school-board" target="_blank">filed suit</a> in 2015, when he was 15 years old and still a student at Gloucester County High School. The Fourth Circuit ruled in his favor and the case went up to the Supreme Court in 2017. However, by that time, Trump had rescinded Obama's Title IX protections for transgender students, so the Supreme Court punted and sent the case back to the lower courts.</p><p>Unfortunately for Gavin, this legal war probably still isn't over yet. The hateful bigots at the Gloucester County School Board can either ask the full Fourth Circuit to rehear the case en banc or just try to go straight to the Supreme Court. <br></p><p>Thankfully, Grimm's chances at the Supreme Court don't look too bad this time around! Trans rights had their biggest SCOTUS win ever last term, when Justice Gorsuch decided to do the right thing in <em><a href="https://www.wonkette.com/breaking-down-the-lgbt-decision-its-a-conservative-on-conservative-cage-match-2646174497" target="_blank">Bostock v. Clayton County</a></em>, Georgia, and acknowledge that Title VII, a different section of the Civil Rights Act, protects transgender people from employment discrimination.</p><p>The Fourth Circuit relied heavily on <em></em><em>Bostock</em> in this opinion, quoting Justice Gorsuch at length. (These judges know their audience — Gorsuch would probably the deciding vote if this case ever got up to the Court.) Like Gorsuch wrote there,<br></p><blockquote>An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what [the CIvil Rights Act] forbids.</blockquote><p>And that's not all. Last year, the Supreme Court denied cert (decided not to hear the case) in <em></em><a href="https://www.aclu.org/cases/doe-v-boyertown-area-school-district" target="_blank">Doe v. Boyertown Area School District</a>, which raised the same legal issues. This usually — though not always! — indicates that the justices either (1) think the case was rightly decided below; or (2) don't feel like dealing with that issue right now, thank you.<br></p><p>This is a huge win, not just for Gavin Grimm and the ACLU, but for trans kids everywhere — and especially students in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and South Carolina — the region the Fourth Circuit covers.<br></p><p>After the ruling, Grimm released a <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/trans-student-fighting-school-bathroom-policy-prevails-at-4th-circuit/" target="_blank">statement</a> reminding us of how important his fight is:<br></p><blockquote>All transgender students should have what I was denied: the opportunity to be seen for who we are by our schools and our government. Today's decision is an incredible affirmation for not just me, but for trans youth around the country.</blockquote><p>Look, good things DO still happen occasionally! </p><p>Congratulations to Gavin and his lawyers at the ACLU and ACLU of Virginia on their huge win!<br></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image" style="margin-left: 20px;">
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Utah Wingnuts Called For High School 'No Mask Monday' Protest. Hero Teens Said 'No Thanks, Jerks!'
Listen to the cheerleader, save the world.
August 25, 2020 01:21 PM
Masks on and hats off to the plucky teens of Enterprise High School (Home of the Wolves) in Enterprise, Utah, population 1,862. Last week, a bunch of messages on Facebook called for parents to send their kids to school in defiance of a statewide mask mandate, to teach those socialist tyrants in Salt Lake City the meaning of Liberty. Instead, KSL-TV reports, students at the high school responded by networking with each other to make sure they all wore masks to school yesterday.
Now if we could just get some of these kids on the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
<p>For some background, let's note that Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/utah-school-students-staff-defying-mask-mandate-could-face-charges-reports" target="_blank">reported Friday</a> that although Utah doesn't have a statewide mask mandate, Gov. Gary Herbert issued a public health order in July requiring students, staff, faculty, and visitors to mask up while on school property or on school buses. Those refusing to do so could be charged with a class B misdemeanor, although the decision to press charges is left up to school leaders. A spox for Herbert said, "It's enforced on a district and superintendent level, but we're not thinking, 'Let's slap a bunch of kids with misdemeanors.'"</p><p>Which is what they <em>say</em>, but clearly they want to make Utah a socialist hellhole. At a minimum, the order does require that students who refuse to wear a mask be sent home (students showing up without masks at Enterprise High are <a href="https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/8/24/21399881/utah-coronavirus-school-mask-mandate-no-mask-monday-protest" target="_blank">offered </a>a mask). The <em>Deseret News </em><a href="https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/8/24/21399881/utah-coronavirus-school-mask-mandate-no-mask-monday-protest" target="_blank">notes </a>that "hundreds of parents" had protested outside the Washington County school district's offices in St. George Friday, calling for the mask mandate to be lifted. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_County_School_District_(Utah)" target="_blank">district</a> serves about 35,000 students countywide.</p><p>That sure raised the hackles of some parents in Enterprise, who took to Facebook to declare <em>Give Me Coronavirus Or Give Me Hyperbole:</em></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><p>It's important for kids to resist this "public health" nonsense, so "maybe they will not just follow blindly to the coming mandates that will come in the future." Like having to wash their hands before returning to work, or reporting to Biden's death camps for Patriots. </p><p>A whole bunch of kids reached the not-unreasonable conclusion that if a large number of their peers eschewed the slavery masks, that could lead to an outbreak, and then a school shutdown. EHS Senior Dallee Cobb, whose track and field season was cut short in the spring when the schools went online, really didn't want to see that happen again. She's also on the cheer squad, so before Saturday's f'ball game (in front of a lineup of players and cheerleaders wearing masks), she called on adults to please not screw up another school year if you don't mind, OK? Here's video<a href="https://www.facebook.com/100017461893621/videos/679750002617057/?extid=y1CKLoS7oDBxe19r" target="_blank"> from Facebook,</a> posted by her dad, Mike: </p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="f85fb8a44d5cf4e34d298f455b9db974"><div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/100017461893621/videos/679750002617057/?extid=y1CKLoS7oDBxe19r" data-allowfullscreen="true"></div></div><blockquote>We saw with the class of 2020 how fast things we love can be taken away from us. We, of all people, should know that wearing a mask is not fun. Neither is wearing a seatbelt, or a life jacket, or pads for football but we do all these things so we have a future. [...]<br><br>We ask that you put your mask on so we can get our game on.</blockquote><p>Ms. Cobb also acknowledged that wearing a mask is inconvenient, but it's a necessary measure if the schools are to have a chance to stay open. So please, she asked the crowd, to help ensure school and football can continue, they should take this "small, simple, and selfless act" and mask up. She's clearly learned not just public spiritedness, but also <a href="https://literarydevices.net/epiphora/" target="_blank">epiphora </a>and alliteration. </p><p>The speeches and the kids' social networking did the job, and Enterprise High Principal Calvin Holt <a href="https://ksltv.com/444072/students-take-a-stand-against-no-mask-monday/" target="_blank">said </a>there were no problems with masks Monday. </p><blockquote>It shows a lot of promise in the future. We've got great kids at Enterprise High School. [...] We're just happy to be back in school and we'll do anything we can to stay here.</blockquote><p>KSL <a href="https://ksltv.com/444072/students-take-a-stand-against-no-mask-monday/" target="_blank">notes </a>that reporters tried to get in touch with some of the people who had been calling for the maskless faceoff, but nobody got back to them. </p><p>[<a href="https://ksltv.com/444072/students-take-a-stand-against-no-mask-monday/" target="_blank">KSL-TV</a> / <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/utah-school-students-staff-defying-mask-mandate-could-face-charges-reports" target="_blank">Fox News</a> / <a href="https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/8/24/21399881/utah-coronavirus-school-mask-mandate-no-mask-monday-protest" target="_blank">Deseret News</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is supported entirely by reader donations. Please help us get our game (<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/hey-remember-that-card-game-we-made-yeah-we-still-have-hundreds-lets-fix-that" target="_blank">we actually have one!</a>) on with a donation! </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Little Marco Rubio Ain’t Got S**t On Eva Longoria
Sit the fuck down, Senator.
August 18, 2020 10:45 AM
Eva Longoria, Desperate Housewives star and recipient of my spec script, was the emcee for the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Republicans thought this was hilarious, especially Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
Brilliant move! No one is more in touch with the challenges & obstacles faced by everyday Americans than actors & c… https://t.co/XY5dZClO7r— Marco Rubio (@Marco Rubio)1597713430.0
It's typical but annoying that Republicans enjoy denigrating an entire profession. Actors are also rarely "the elite." They are often just a single big role removed from eating ramen and living in a run-down studio with four other actors. Eva Longoria grew up working class.
Longoria didn't show up Monday dripping in bling and ready for her Norma Desmond closeup. She specifically said: "I am here tonight as a ninth-generation Texan, as a daughter of a veteran and a teacher, as a mother, as a voter, and as a patriot."
But for assholes like Rubio, she's just the actor from this scene.
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</p><p>And yes, it's a damn good scene. (She's also a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oL8vfmwQB8" target="_blank">great comedic actor.)</a><br></p><p>Little Marco likes to go on about his humble beginnings as the son of Cuban immigrants. His father was a bartender and his mother a housekeeper. Rubio is now a spineless, donor-owned senator. It's the American dream! Longoria's story is similar except for the part where she doesn't suck.</p><p>She didn't grow up wealthy. She worked at Wendy's as a teen instead of “selling" lemonade to her household staff like a common <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ivanka-lemonade-stand-trump-tower_n_583df339e4b0ae0e7cda76f3" target="_blank">Ivanka Trump. </a> Her “big break" was a part on “Young and the Restless," but soap stars aren't wealthy by any measure. Even veteran cast members earn mid-six figures. They aren't poor but they don't spend their evenings lighting cigars with $100 bills, either. When I lived in New York, I knew working actors, hedge fund managers, and corporate lawyers. The actors weren't the rich ones.</p><p>Longoria earned millions while on "Desperate Housewives," and conservatives should applaud her class mobility. Instead, they seek to marginalize her because she earned her fortune honestly, unlike the current first family. I assume Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump will speak at the Republican National Convention and both are rich, entitled twits with zero understanding of the "challenges and obstacles faced by everyday Americans."</p><p>Actors are “everyday Americans" and even American citizens. They have the right to express their political opinions, especially now when COVID-19 has devastated their industry.</p><p>Republicans have waged this lopsided class war against actors, one of few professions where you could start out with nothing and achieve success. It's also not as if Republicans are all former truckers. Donald Trump was born rich and was gifted a “small loan" of $1 million for his failed business hobby (more<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/trumps-small-loan-from-his-father-was-more-like-60point7-million-nyt.html" target="_blank"> like $60.7 million</a> in actual, non-lie currency). But Trump is literally only president because of his celebrity. Middle America knew him best as the host of a reality show. And the party's sainted Ronald Reagan was a former actor.</p><p>Maybe Rubio just resents that when celebrities speak at Republican conventions, they address empty chairs.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p>Longoria said last night that she shares "Joe Biden's belief that the story of America is one of ordinary people coming together to do extraordinary things. And at our best, our country rewards hard work, we celebrate diversity, we look out for each other, and we lift one another up."</p><p>This reflects how Longoria has used her wealth and fame over the past 15 years. She founded the Eva Longoria Foundation, which promotes entrepreneurship and education among Latinas. She's <a href="https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/local/article/Eva-Longoria-and-Howard-Buffett-team-up-to-help-5377180.php" target="_blank">partnered with philanthropist Howard Buffett</a> to provide loans for Latina women who want to start their own small businesses. She's also an immigration activist — despite having deeper roots in the US than Trump himself — and has focused her <a href="https://www.film-news.co.uk/news/UK/69539/Eva-Longoria-to-focus-charity-work-on-victims-of-family-separation-policies" target="_blank">recent charity work</a> on victims of the administration's family separation policy.</p><p>Trump's election<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/nov/11/its-a-scary-time-for-latinos-how-eva-longoria-took-the-fight-to-trump-and-became-a-major-director" target="_blank"> terrified Longoria,</a> who fell into a brief depression like so many of us, but she also got back up and fought for a better America.</p><blockquote><strong>LONGORIA:</strong> I did put my head in the sand. I took a break for about two years. But you can't give up. So when the midterms came along, I participated in helping people get elected to change the way our government looks. It should reflect reality, which is people of color and women. Making sure it reflects society is going to be my lifelong struggle.</blockquote><p>Also, Longoria <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2013-may-23-la-et-mg-eva-longoria-graduates-masters-chicano-studies-20130523-story.html" target="_blank">earned her master's in Chicano studies</a> during her run on “Desperate Housewives," so just shut the fuck up forever, Little Marco.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/eva-longoria-praised-dnc-hosting-skills-1525795" target="_blank">Newsweek</a>]<br></p><p><em>Follow Stephen Robinson on </em><em><a href="https://twitter.com/SER1897" target="_blank">Twitter.</a></em><br></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p><strong>Yr Wonkette is 100 percent ad-free and entirely supported entirely by reader donations. That's you! Please click the clickie, if you are able!</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Coronavirus Shortens UNC Chapel Hill School Year By 51 Weeks Or So
They had a very good school year last week.
August 18, 2020 09:30 AM
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made it a whole week between the start of on-campus classes on August 10 and the announcement yesterday that it would switch to online-only instruction following — you guessed it! — an outbreak of coronavirus. Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz and Provost Bob Blouin said 177 students have tested positive for COVID-19 and are in isolation, and 349 more are being quarantined because they were exposed to people known to have tested positive. The administrators also said, "So far, we have been fortunate that most students who have tested positive have demonstrated mild symptoms."
The Raleigh News & Observer reports "UNC data showed 13.6% of the 954 students tested last week were positive — nearly twice the percentage testing positive on average in the previous three weeks." There were four major clusters — an outbreak of 5 or more cases in a single location — identified: two in dorms, one in a university-owned apartment complex, and one at a fraternity. That made for a very accurate headline in yesterday's print edition of the student newspaper, the Daily Tar Heel:
The online edition had a more polite headline, but included the subhed "clusterfuck (n): a complex and utterly disordered and mismanaged situation."
<p>University leaders had a very thorough plan for public health, with a mix of in-person classes and online options, social distancing, and mandatory mask rules on campus, and Blouin had written Thursday that it was "heartening" to see such terrific compliance among students and faculty, except oopsies, nobody really gave a lot of thought to the fact that college students, when brought back to campus, are likely to behave like college students. The outbreaks appear to have mostly resulted from people partying off campus, not wearing masks, and drinking, because that's what you go to college for, duh. </p><p>These three paragraphs from the <em>News & Observer</em> don't really offer a heck of a lot of reassurance, except maybe for campuses whose student bodies are entirely made up of nerds who started out socially isolated: </p><blockquote style="margin-left: 20px;"> Several infectious-disease experts and epidemiologists at the meeting said contact tracing so far has not found any infections transmitted in educational spaces, such as classrooms or labs, or between students and instructors.<br><br>"What we have found is that most of the transmissions have been within the social sphere of campus life, and that has been really challenging for us to manage and to hold people to the level of accountability that we probably needed to," Blouin said.<br><br>"So I guess in terms of lessons learned, certainly, that was a big lesson learned," he said.</blockquote><p>So clearly, that single week of instruction was very educational! </p><p>Barbara K. Rimer, the dean of UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health, <a href="https://mondaymorning.web.unc.edu/campus-decisions-who-makes-them-with-what-consequences-and-when-to-change-them/" target="_blank">wrote </a>that university leadership had prepared a solid plan for reopening the university, but that successful reopening was premised on flattening the curve nationally, which hadn't happened. She also pointed out that UNC's chancellor and provost hadn't "had full freedom to act since the [Board of Governors] told system universities they had to reopen and that individual university chancellors could not make those decisions independently." So there's a thing other institutions may want to give some thought to. She concluded, </p><blockquote>After only one week of campus operations, with growing numbers of clusters and insufficient control over the off-campus behavior of students (and others), it is time for an off-ramp. We have tried to make this work, but it is not working.</blockquote><p>In the meantime, Donald Trump and other Republicans continue to insist schools at all levels should reopen, because young people are very resilient and live forever — something you should never say to college students, especially the boys, since they already think that. </p><p>Best of luck, everyone. May the odds be ever in your favor. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/unc-chapel-hill-coronavirus-cluster/2020/08/17/8ebce060-e0ab-11ea-8181-606e603bb1c4_story.html" target="_blank">WaPo </a>/ <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article245014185.html" target="_blank">News & Observer</a> / <a href="https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/08/covid-clusters-edit-0816" target="_blank">Daily Tar Heel </a>/ Photo by <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carol_Building_in_UNC-Chapel_Hill.jpg" target="_blank">'Spaghet-Ti,'</a> Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en" target="_blank">license 4.0</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is supported entirely by reader donations. Please help us keep the lights on and our writers paid! Thank goodness we like working at home. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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