![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Friday night before oral arguments in Obergefell, Bruce Jenner, as he was then called, went on ABC’s 20/20 for a two-hour special to declare that “For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.” And in May 2016, the Obama administration announced that the word “sex” in our federal civil rights laws now meant “gender identity” - which was an entirely subjective, “internal sense” of gender, “which may be male, female, neither, or a combination of male and female.”īut what are the consequences of grounding civil rights law in such nebulous concepts? Joe Biden declares “Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. ![]() Sure, the acronym was LGBT, but the debates in the 1990s and early 2000s were all about the L, G, and B - about “gay rights” and “marriage equality.” But in spring of 2015, as activists sensed that Anthony Kennedy was about to judicially redefine marriage throughout the United States, their organizations pivoted to the T. A decade ago, few Americans had really thought much about transgender issues. ![]()
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