Ninth Circuit Judge, Who of Course Is a Trump Appointee, Issues Vulgar Dissent In Case Involving Trans Women

"This is a case about swinging dicks. 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."

"Woke regulators and complicit judges seem entirely willing, even eager, to ignore the consequences that their Frankenstein social experiments impose on real women and young girls."

"The Ninth Circuit earlier ruled against the plaintiffs in the case, the owners of a women-only, self-described Christian Korean spa in Washington called Olympus Spa. The court ruled that the spa must admit trans women, regardless of whether they have undergone gender reassignment surgery, saying that it did not violate the spa owners religious freedom to do so."

Judge Lawrence VanDyke, appointed by Trump to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, issued a dissent in a case involving Olympus Spa, a women-only Korean spa in Washington State. The Ninth Circuit had ruled that the spa must admit trans women regardless of surgery status, finding no violation of the owners' religious freedom. When denying a petition for en banc rehearing, VanDyke used vulgar language and crude terminology to describe trans women, stating his colleagues had "lost their collective minds." He characterized the ruling as a "Frankenstein social experiment" and claimed it ignored consequences for women and girls. Fellow judges on the court have criticized the dissent as "juvenile," and the incident reflects Trump's stated goal of appointing judges to "de-woke-ify" the Ninth Circuit.

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