to be clear: the government's claim - validated by the Court - is that it would *irreparably harm* the president to not misgender trans people

In a recent article, @katieeyer.bsky.social of @law.rutgers.edu argues that, after Loper Bright, a textual reading of Title IX’s ban on discrimination “on the basis of sex” leaves agencies and courts no room to exclude LGBTQ students from its protection. www.theregreview.org/2025/10/29/h...

No Kings, Philadelphia

Frogs of New York

Northfield, MN NO KINGS!!

No Kings New York

Had the pleasure of attending today’s No Kings rally with my 85 year old mom and 51 year old sister. The family that protests together?

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

No Kings won't gain us any ground, it's true. But No Kings helps us hold the line — a line that is very much at risk There can be no mass movement if the masses succumb to fear and despair

Honored to have been voted a Distinguished Prof by my faculty today. It still has to go to the University but this is the vote that means the most to me! Sincere gratitude to anyone who wrote on my behalf (we don't find out who our letter writers were, so this is the best I can do to say ty!)

I wrote about trans visibility in a time of rising transphobia for @theverge.com www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Very nice piece from my colleague @stevevladeck.bsky.social in today's Times on the illegality of Trump's troop deployments to American cities. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

"About 52% of the patients that I’m operating on are [gunshot wounds], and the other half are explosive injuries."

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court — over the objection of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson — allows the Trump administration’s racial profiling of people working certain types of jobs in its immigration raids during litigation.

This is a terrific thread.

In Kluge, CA7 today reinstated a public school teacher's claim for a religious accommodation to avoid calling transgender students by their chosen names. Judge Rovner's dissent cites and quotes @profjdnelson.bsky.social's article, Disestablishment at Work, www.yalelawjournal.org/article/dise...:

My latest essay is now up on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... In it, I explore the opportunities that state constitutions afford for recognizing a right of gender autonomy (the right to self-identify and self-express one's gender free from state intervention). Feedback welcome!

1/X Since Skrmetti was decided & the SCT gtd review in the trans sports cases I’ve been contemplating whether I have anything useful to say here on Bsky about trans rts. Uncharacteristically for me, I'm not feeling especially optimistic about the *law* RN & that's not exactly a novel take. BUT (a 🧵)

This is a weird sad thing to post on social media but I was hoping some of you dog lovers out there could say a prayer for our poor foster dog Geno, who through a series of terrible events (involving escalating possessiveness of me & aggression to others) wound up having to be euthanized last week.

Under anti-classification doctrine, Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care warranted closer-look review. The law drew lines based on sex and transgender status—both of which should trigger heightened scrutiny, @katieeyer.bsky.social of @law.rutgers.edu argues. www.theregreview.org/2025/07/14/e...

The Skrmetti decision "leaves the courts free to continue to apply closer-look review to most transgender rights contexts" but also provides cover to "refuse to see sex or gender identify classifications," @katieeyer.bsky.social of @law.rutgers.edu argues. www.theregreview.org/2025/07/14/e...

Can't wait to read this book by the fabulous @serenamayeri.bsky.social! Serena's work is always fascinating, illuminating and original. Congrats Serena and can't wait to read! www.amazon.com/Marital-Priv...

Important to read this decision in the context of longer-term efforts by SCOTUS to chip away at private enforcement of civil rights & social welfare laws. I'll put a bunch of relevant background reading in the thread 🧵:

Another facet of this has to do w/ whom private plaintiffs can sue & what they are able to recover. This is one reason why the resurgence of state sovereign immunity over the last several decades is such a big deal, as @katieeyer.bsky.social & I have argued: www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/disa...

Glad to be able to write an op-ed with @katieeyer.bsky.social & @sandrasperino.bsky.social on why it's time to retire the judge-made rules used to dismiss employment discrimination cases: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

From our article: "[A]t the Supreme Court, disability cases have continued to provide the site for new retrenchments in Congress’s spending power, alongside robust assertions of the Court’s own authority."

This seems like something to watch - and is consistent with a trend that @katieeyer.bsky.social & I flagged in our @yalelawjournal.bsky.social article on "Disability and the Ongoing Federalism Revolution": www.yalelawjournal.org/feature/disa...

New to Bluesky, and posting a new paper: "Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and Title VI: A Guide for the Perplexed" -- with @beidelson.bsky.social. Forthcoming in Harv. L. Rev. Forum in June. (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....). A thread follows.

My 2024 Const Day remarks on US v. Skrmetti's implications for wider EP doctrine are now on SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=526.... The major takeaway: each of the ways the S Ct could rule *against* heightened scrutiny for trans ppl wd require doing damage to one of the core principles of modern EP doctrine

Good news from Montana--a state court has struck down a gender affirming care ban, calling the ban what it is: an ideological attack on transgender people. Many state constitutions offer more protection against gender discrimination than the federal one. www.aclumontana.org/sites/defaul...

My brother was diagnosed w/autism the week my mom learned she was pregnant w/me over 40 yrs ago. Autism & autistic people have been a welcome part of my life & my family’s lives ever since. This RFK quote is so absurd, offensive, and shameful that only one word can describe it: wrong. In every way.

Time to speak up

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper. Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.

This segment from @maryannefranks.bsky.social is an incredibly tight argument that captures the breadth of the Trump assault on free speech perfectly and in less than a minute. Spread it far and wide.

PPP is organizing working groups of law students & lawyers who are committed to ensuring our profession is on the right side of history. If you are interested in being part of this effort, please fill out this form and our team will be in touch with you shortly: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... (4/4)

Does textualism promote or protect equality? @law.rutgers.edu Professor @katieeyer.bsky.social‬ argues that it does in her article “Textualism as an Equality Practice?” Check it out here: buff.ly/r4V21nc #WomenAlsoKnowLaw

There are so many other terrrible things happening but this is terrible to--and worth noting it is in direct contravention of the statutory design of Title VI (short 🧵) www.pressherald.com/2025/03/11/u...

"Textualism can promote equality before the law." @katieeyer.bsky.social @womenknowlaw.bsky.social #womenalsoknowlaw @law.rutgers.edu

happy international women’s day

This "immediate cancellation" violates the law. If the Admin thinks Columbia has violated Title VI by being deliberately indifferent to antisemitic harassment, it has to give Columbia a chance for a hearing first, make findings on the record, & wait 30 days. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

This is very good, and raises a troubling q that Wurman and Barnett fail to answer. Set citizenship aside for the moments Under their account, are the children of undocumented migrants even entitled to the equal protection of the laws? That’s not at all clear. Here’s why. 1.

“Of Health Care, Birthright Citizenship, and the New Politics of Legal Scholarship,” with @anthonymkreis.bsky.social. www.dorfonlaw.org/2025/03/of-h...

Wondering about the legality of DJT's EOs purporting to read Title IX to *require* a variety of anti-trans measures? I have updated my forthcoming Article to address: ssrn.com/abstract=494... Topline summary: the text of TIX neither authorizes nor permits such mandatory anti-trans measures.

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent. CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture. MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

Duckworth N CLOTURE FAILS, CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN. Last few votes rolling in.

before trans participation in sports was banned in utah in 2022: • 4/75,000 school athletes were trans • 1/75,000 was a trans girl not that it’s ever been about sports or numbers and not that the number matters even a little but tuberville’s bullshit is *so* outrageously untrue.