- Writing a piece on the history and current use of the idea of "biological sex" with Reva Siegel now--check out what it's doing below. The idea is playing a major role in these cases--and in the Court's potential rethinking of sex discrimination writ large. Stay tuned for more on that!
- NEW: On the shadow docket, the Supreme Court lets Trump resume misgendering trans Americans on their passports, claiming "the government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Re: biological sex I've been collecting various sex definitions in U.S. legislation as far back as the LegiScan archives go (2009) & you can see the "biological sex" instances show up with the trans bathroom bans in 2015 & explode starting in 2020. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...