Judge Strikes Down LGBTQ Workplace Protections
MAGA Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has issued a ruling declaring that Title VII no longer protects LGBTQ+ people from workplace discrimination. The decision directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s landmark 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, which held that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is, by definition, sex discrimination.
Kacsmaryk’s ruling marks one of the most alarming judicial rollbacks of LGBTQ+ rights in recent memory — and sets up a direct legal challenge to one of the foundational civil rights protections for queer and trans people in the United States.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 18, 2025 6:12 PM
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And so it REALLY & FINALLY begins beyond the trans hysteria.
Watch this space, and… told ya so!
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 16, 2025 8:46 PM
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Kacsmaryk's next challenge case will likely be the sodomy ruling, Lawrence v. Texas from 2003. Can't wait for the time when your neighbors can call the police on you because they heard you having noisy sex with another man.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 16, 2025 8:51 PM
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Here's a tentative listing:
Brown, et al v. Board of Education
Hernandez v. Texas and Guey
Heung Lee v. Johnson
Lawrence v. Texas
Browder v. Gayle and Cooper
Aaron and Boynton v. Virginia
Loving v. Virginia
Obergefell v. Hodges
Connecticut v. Griswold
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 16, 2025 9:07 PM
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This story misrepresents the odious ruling as well as the POS judge. But if you read a less biased source, r1, you will find that this is in fact mostly about trans rights. I don’t know whether truth in reporting is important or even desirable at this time, but I am set in my ways.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 16, 2025 9:53 PM
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The more objective source I neglected to post.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 16, 2025 9:54 PM
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Did the issue a nationwide injunction?
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 16, 2025 9:57 PM
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Did the *judge* issue a nationwide injunction?
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 16, 2025 10:22 PM
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This is the same biased loon judge who tried to ban abortion medication
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 16, 2025 10:28 PM
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WTF! they assured us it would only be TRANS!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 16, 2025 10:34 PM
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I went to law school with this creature. He was a fifth-rate intellect even then. A moron AND a religious nut.
He’s also a terrible writer— read his opinions. He should be working in a shoe store, Al Bundy style.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 16, 2025 10:35 PM
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[quote] queer and trans people
Well, I’m gay. Where does that leave me and other gay people not fixated on fucking alphabet soup or getting attention?
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 16, 2025 10:36 PM
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R4 to stupid to live and you won't.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 16, 2025 10:41 PM
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R11, the term "queer" includes gays. Maybe focus on right-wingers who want to punish us instead of demonizing people for how they identify.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 16, 2025 11:06 PM
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R11 it leaves you in the oven right next to Caitlyn you senile old kween.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 16, 2025 11:25 PM
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Queer this, trans that. That’s why we’re in this mess.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 16, 2025 11:27 PM
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ABC: “Federal judge strikes down workplace protections for transgender workers”
That’s the gist of it. It’s always about them and we get dragged into it. This just happened in the UK.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 16, 2025 11:29 PM
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R15, no, it isn't. This judge is a far right fundie loon. People like that have always hated us. 😒
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 16, 2025 11:53 PM
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Get this fucking mess up to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stat, and kick this despicable loon in his lady balls.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 18, 2025 5:59 AM
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[quote]But if you read a less biased source, [R1], you will find that this is in fact mostly about trans rights.
It's trans *privileges* that are being taken away, not rights.
Wanting to use the ladies' room or making your colleagues call you by your preferred pronouns are not rights.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 18, 2025 6:24 AM
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R19, it's not just about bathroom. And it's not just about trans people, either
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 18, 2025 2:58 PM
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WhoEVER would have guessed the you-know-whos would have gotten us into this pickle!
They're not just for losing elections anymore!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 18, 2025 3:48 PM
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R21, you think conservatives only hate us because of trans people? 🤔
Have you been in a coma for the past 50 years?
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 18, 2025 5:59 PM
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No source. Didn’t happen.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 18, 2025 6:12 PM
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