San Francisco Chronicle: Did the Supreme Court just walk back its position on trans protections? - Alliance for Justice

San Francisco Chronicle: Did the Supreme Court just walk back its position on trans protections?

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Bob Egelko

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LGBTQ+ Americans


This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on August 19, 2024.

Zack Ford, spokesperson for the liberal advocacy group Alliance for Justice, said it’s possible the court is signaling plans to reconsider the scope of sex discrimination law that it defined in 2020.

“We definitely can’t rule it out based on Friday’s ruling,” he said.

“The Supreme Court’s decision to block the Biden administration’s Title IX guidance is the latest example of its extreme overreach” and showed that the court “did … not seem to care about its own precedents,” Ford said in a statement.

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