"This is a case about swinging d-. The Christian owners of Olympus Spa - a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa - understandably don't want them in their spa. Their female employees and female clients don't want them in their spa either. But Washington State insists on them. And now so does the Ninth Circuit."
"The court "is not a place for vulgar barroom talk," Judge M. Margaret McKeown clapped back in a concurrence joined by 25 fellow judges. "That language makes us sound like juveniles, not judges, and it undermines public trust in the courts.""
"VanDyke went on to denounce the court's liberal majority as "woke judges" who had "collectively lost their minds" and now sought to impose "Frankenstein social experiments ... on real women and young girls.""
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear a Washington state case involving a Korean spa that restricted admission to biological women. Judge Lawrence VanDyke's dissenting opinion argued the restriction was constitutionally protected, using vulgar language and inflammatory rhetoric to criticize the court's majority as "woke judges" imposing "Frankenstein social experiments." The spa permitted trans women who had undergone vaginoplasty but excluded those with penises. The dissent provoked a strong response from 26 fellow judges, who issued a concurrence condemning VanDyke's language as "vulgar barroom talk" that undermines public trust in the judiciary and makes judges sound unprofessional.
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