This is accepting the premise of Sessions et al. without even explaining the counter-argument (the EEOC’s & growing # of courts’ position).
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Their argument is, in brief, that sexual orientation & gender identity discrimination are, inherently, TYPES of sex discrimination.
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Anyway, there are other issues with the NYT story and its framing, but the Title VII/Title IX issue is a ~speciality~ of mine, so, yeah.
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Here’s the NYT story leading to this criticism:https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/us/politics/jeff-sessions-transgender.html …
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hahaha I love how this presents his position as passive, as opposed to super active w/ DOJ weirdly arguing that courts should ignore EEOC
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Where is this from? Sessions is an unenlightened, racist relic. This statement belongs in the Stone Age along with Sessions' Klan robe.
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& "gender identity" is one of many characteristics of sex, not separate from it. cf. http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/rjmedwed/sex_vs_gender … by
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The sane people of Alabama could have told you that Session is still living in the 1800s and is not about to change.
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Jeff is a moron-proves it every day
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