Get ready, because this decision is going to have some serious and far-reaching consequences:
A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could help block conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care, advocates and experts say.
A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week became the first federal appellate court in the country to find that the 1990 landmark federal law protects transgender people who experience anguish and other symptoms as a result of the disparity between their assigned sex and their gender identity. ...
The decision came in the case of a transgender woman [sic] who sued the Fairfax County sheriff in Virginia for housing her [sic] in a jail with men. The decision is not limited to transgender people challenging jail policies, but also applies broadly to all areas of society covered by disability rights law, including employment, government benefits and services and public accommodations, ...
First impressions on this ruling:
It is worth stressing that, per the ruling itself, the prisoner in question made extraordinary demands of the sheriff's office: He asked "for body searches to be conducted by a female deputy" and he also asked "to be housed with females."
In other words, the prisoner wished to be allowed to live, sleep and shower with women, and he wished for the county to force a female deputy to do body searches on him. On this basis, apparently, he sued the county for violation of his rights.
And now it's part of U.S. law. Buckle up!
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