Judge blocks West Virginia law banning
transgender students from girls sports
Washington Times,
by
Alex Swoyer
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
7/22/2021 4:35:37 PM
A federal judge blocked a West Virginia law banning transgender athletes from competing in girls sports, saying the legislation likely runs afoul of the Constitution. Judge Joseph R. Goodwin, a Clinton appointee, said if West Virginia wants to treat people differently, there must be a compelling reason to do so. “I have been provided with scant evidence that this law addresses any problem at all, let alone an important problem,” the judge wrote in a 15-page opinion. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a Republican, signed the Save Women’s Sports bill in April. The legislation requires the state’s public schools to allow biological females only to compete in girls sports.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Phantomll 7/22/2021 4:42:31 PM (No. 853853)
Where does the Constitution cover transgenders? This judge in an idiot - how would he feel if he had an athlete daughter who had to compete against he/shes? Slick Willy appointee - no surprise.
37 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
Ribicon 7/22/2021 4:47:59 PM (No. 853856)
I credit the ironically named Great Emancipator for destroying the concept of state autonomy. Everything is decided by a central authority, like it or not.
13 people like this.
How does this run afoul of the Constitution? What about the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for all of the actual girls that get their opportunities taken away by some mental defective freak? I seriously doubt that this was the intent of the Equal Protection Clause.
Personally, I identify as a billionaire, and I demand that the government make that happen officially. Otherwise, you are denying me my rights. See how stupid this game is?
32 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/22/2021 5:19:26 PM (No. 853883)
How could the Constitution have been blind to the separation of XX (girls) and XY (boys) for 245 years and then a federal judge cite "no compelling reason" for something that's been the norm in this country since before the Constitution was even written and ratified?
23 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
SALady 7/22/2021 5:20:29 PM (No. 853886)
I thought a federal judge was just supposed to determine the Constitutionality of a law, not if he personally believes it has any effect on people or not.
Being a Slick Willie appointment, I know he has no clue what the Constitution says. But he should at least try!!!
25 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 7/22/2021 5:22:28 PM (No. 853887)
*** if West Virginia wants to treat people differently, there must be a compelling reason to do so. ***
OK, then, if this black-robed judiciarch says you can't treat anyone differently, then boys can play on girls teams if they want, and vice versa, even without going tranny.
Just do away with the boys teams and the girls teams completely, and have one team. (or no team.)
19 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/22/2021 5:25:49 PM (No. 853889)
If the Constitution says men who call themselves women can play women's sports, where does it say that any man cannot. If a man calling himself a woman can play women's sports why can't any man who is too weak to compete with other men.
11 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/22/2021 5:26:48 PM (No. 853890)
Dear judge...the "compelling reason" you somehow can't see is that the so-called "transgender" females are in fact males. No amount of pretending or gobbledygook terminology changes that immutable fact.
You're welcome.
31 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
TLCary 7/22/2021 5:32:11 PM (No. 853895)
This "Constitution" that Liberals keep referring to: the one that doesn't protect citizens right to own firearms, establishes the right to abortions on demand until just after birth and requires us to let boys that pretend to be girls kick-ass in women's sports; where can I find a copy of that?
18 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Californian 7/22/2021 5:42:53 PM (No. 853908)
I checked the USC and the words transgender, gender, sex, and a few others do not appear at all in the core document nor amendments directly, indirectly, implied, or in any other way.
Mental illness is not a protected class.
20 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
HPmatt 7/22/2021 5:48:21 PM (No. 853914)
More than past the time to start IGNORING federal judges making stuff up. Start ignoring them, like Libs are doing regarding all sorts of laws - immigration, violent felonies, etc.
17 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Blackbird 7/22/2021 6:20:49 PM (No. 853937)
“Scant evidence “ of unfairness??? This stupid left wing “judge “ must be deaf, dumb and blind.
12 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
pmcclure 7/22/2021 7:25:42 PM (No. 853968)
Since there's no difference, I think men should be required to bear 50% of the children. Same logic...
6 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
janjan 7/22/2021 7:42:13 PM (No. 853980)
There is more than ample evidence that biological males perform better than females in competitive sports simply because of biology. This judge know that. He is attempting to override State law because he thinks he can. Fight it to the Supreme Court.
5 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
kono 7/22/2021 7:43:12 PM (No. 853981)
Anybody who's gone through puberty and still doesn't see a compelling difference between boys and girls lacks the intellectual integrity to be a judge of anything human. Or biological, for that matter. Joe Goodwin is a profound idiot.
9 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/22/2021 7:43:47 PM (No. 853982)
States rights do not exist anymore in spite of what the Constitution says about states rights. In fact the Constitution does not exist anymore either.
5 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
danu 7/22/2021 8:11:21 PM (No. 853998)
As we saw with the scuttling of the Trump election cases--right up to SCAMUS, the highest liars in the land--so many important cases end up before unworthy politicised, overreaching marxocrat judges.
It's time to weed out the mini-mao court clerks and presiding judges who redistribute these cases to their own kind for their own nefarious schemes for 'legal precedent'.
Straighten up and fly right, WV, before you become a Billshevik labour camp.
We love you guys--get cracking!
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/22/2021 8:42:52 PM (No. 854015)
Hey Judge, here's a clue. Either they are girls or they are not, there is NO in between...
8 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
pilot222 7/22/2021 10:55:20 PM (No. 854092)
Lincoln said to SC, ok you made your ruling, now enforce it. WV, just ignore it
3 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
bobn.t 7/22/2021 11:51:06 PM (No. 854123)
More demnut insanity.
1 person likes this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 7/23/2021 5:42:11 AM (No. 854216)
Get rid of the federal judiciary.
2 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
5 handicap 7/23/2021 6:02:38 AM (No. 854224)
West VA. Do it anyway...let this criminal hack enforce his own ruling! If the FBI comes arrest the Bastids for breaking West Va laws!
1 person likes this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 7/23/2021 6:35:51 AM (No. 854232)
We just had a Clinton judge do the same thing here in Arkansas. They're a cancer on the judiciary.
1 person likes this.
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